Clearing the air: The costs and consequences of higher CAFE standards and increased gasoline taxes
By D. Austin, T. Dinan. Controlling Automobile Air Pollution, 2005
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Concerns about energy security and climate change have sparked legislators' interest in reducing gasoline consumption by increasing corporate average fuel-economy (CAFE) standards. Using an empirically rich simulation model and cost estimates for anticipated fuel-economy technologies, we estimate annual costs of reducing long-run gasoline consumption by 10% via a 3.8 miles per gallon increase in the standards, and the potential cost savings from allowing manufacturers to buy and sell fuel-economy credits. Maximum gasoline savings would be realized only after all existing vehicles were replaced, or 14 years in our model. A gasoline tax would produce greater immediate savings by encouraging people to drive less, and eventually to choose more fuel-efficient vehicles. We demonstrate the advantage of a tax by comparing the cost of the higher CAFE standards over the first 14 years, against the cost of a gasoline tax that would save the same amount of gasoline over that time.
Subfields: Automotive Engineering, Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
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- Internal and external barriers to energy efficiency: which role for policy interventions? (2019, background): “Taxes should be preferable to standards, given that their cost is transparent, they promote behavioral changes, and they take into consideration the heterogeneity of consumers (Austin and Dinan 2005).”