Martin Feldstein in WSJ on “Tradeable Gasoline Rights”
Lynne Kiesling Martin Feldstein has a column in today’s WSJ (subscription required) in which he recommends that the government issue tradeable gasoline rights (TGRs) instead of either raising CAFE...
View ArticleA problem with market-based approaches to emission reductions
Michael Giberson Market-based approaches to regulating emissions are the new conventional wisdom, according to Robert Stavins, and it would be hard to disagree. Among proponents of regulating...
View ArticleKazman on CAFE regulations
Michael Giberson Sam Kazman, of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, opines on the loss of spare tires in some new car models: Fewer tires, higher taxes. That may be what’s in store for drivers under...
View ArticleRaising MPG standards, part 2: Morris well explains the relative advantages...
Michael Giberson At the Freakonomics blog, transportation scholar Eric Morris favors President Obama’s recent deal to dramatically raise CAFE standards (Corporate Automobile Fuel Economy standards) by...
View ArticleWell, in that case I favor higher automobile fuel economy standards
Michael Giberson Gasoline prices are relatively high and we’re well into the 2012 political campaign, so that means we have presidential wannabees and a wannabee-reelected promising to pass out candy...
View ArticleFederal government is trying to fix your car-buying mistakes
Michael Giberson One of the federal government’s first oil conservation ideas, initiated during the Ford presidency, was Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) regulation. Mostly the goal was to reduce...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....