Fuel Efficiency
Trump’s DOT Moves to Scrap Biden-Era Fuel Efficiency Standards
The scourge of car depending means "cleaner" cars alone will do nothing to make transportation more cost-efficient for Americans.
February 1, 2025
…Or Should We Soak ‘Super-Drivers’ Instead of Subsidizing Them?
Piling subsidies on subsidies, even if well-meaning, fails to rein in the full cost of driving.
January 29, 2024
Should We Stop Subsidizing EVs For All and Focus on ‘Super-Drivers’?
Ten percent of U.S. drivers use 35 percent of our fuel. Instead of focusing on getting them in EVs, though, subsidies miss "super-users" and reinforce car dependency.
January 29, 2024
Talking New York High Gas Price Blues
Why are New York lawmakers — and other cold-state Democrats — calling for lower gas and fuel costs ... in an era when low gas and fuel costs have reduced the ability for life to sustain itself on Earth?
November 16, 2021
The Electric F-150 and the Lifestyle-Truck Virus
Would subsidizing the purchase of new pickup trucks enhance or diminish the welfare of our communities? If you think putting more trucks on the road is a bad idea, your position is at odds with parts of federal government policy. Starting next year, Ford will be selling an electric variant of America’s most-popular vehicle, the F-150 pickup. And thanks to the federal electric vehicle tax credit, the U.S. Treasury will be knocking up to $7,500 off of each buyer’s tax liability come April 15.
July 23, 2021
Half of Americans Want Drivers Who Drive More to Pay More
People are starting to get behind a VMT tax. (Um, so what's a vehicle miles traveled tax?)
July 20, 2020
Five Reasons Why Trump’s Fuel Standards Rollback is Terrible
Here's the only story you need on why the Trump administration is wrong to gut an Obama-era rule to make cars cleaner and more efficient.
April 2, 2020
Less Driving, More Electrics Will Reduce Emissions
People need to live and work radically differently if the United States can even hope to get halfway towards becoming carbon neutral by 2050, but a new paper released last month says the most important change would come in how we get around.
October 15, 2019
Climate Protests Stop D.C. Traffic Dead
The goal was to reminded drivers of the ravaging effects their car dependency has on life on this planet.
September 24, 2019
Federal unSAFE Rollbacks Would Have Dire Consequences for Air Quality
The federal proposal poses some very serious problems; litigation might delay them, but few want to talk about other solutions
June 6, 2019
