Light city cars’ high ANCAP ratings do not protect in real world crashes
They’re taking the long way round to not saying that CAFE standards kill people. In collisions basically mass wins. Occupant injury is inversely proportional to vehicular mass and regulations which...
View ArticleIssa Report: ‘Disturbing, But Not Surprising
IER President Thomas Pyle issued the following statement upon today’s release of the House Oversight Committee report, entitled “A Dismissal of Safety, Choice, and Cost: The Obama Administration’s New...
View ArticleNew Congressional report exposes the fact that fuel economy mandates are...
For years we at the Institute for Energy Research have highlighted the problems with the Obama administration’s corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) mandate. We have written comments to the...
View ArticleMarlo Lewis: Inside the Sausage Factory: The Obama Administration’s Auto...
Earlier this month, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee issued a staff report on the Obama Administration’s fuel economy/greenhouse gas (GHG) regulatory program. The report, A Dismissal...
View ArticleEPA issues new fuel-efficiency standard; Autos must average 54.5 mpg by 2025
Another effort to kill off more people by forcing them into lighter, less-protective buzz-boxes. The Obama administration announced strict new vehicle fuel-efficiency standards Tuesday, requiring that...
View ArticleWhite House finalizes 2025 ‘historic’ fuel rules for automakers
The Obama administration has finalized the landmark 2017-25 fuel economy rules that will nearly double the efficiency of the nation’s cars and trucks over the next 13 years to a fleet-wide average of...
View ArticleNew CAFE Mandates Harm Consumers
IER Director of Regulatory Affairs Daniel Simmons issued the following statement about today’s announcement by the Obama administration of a new corporate average fuel economy mandate (CAFE): “This is...
View ArticleMichelle Malkin: CAFE kills
Mindlessly imposed fuel-efficiency standards aren’t just costly, they’re deadly. While all eyes were on the Republican National Convention in Tampa and Hurricane Isaac on the Gulf Coast, the White...
View ArticleObama Mileage Mandate Will Fuel Auto Disaster
On the same day the administration releases rules mandating a near-doubling of fuel economy standards, GM announces it is suspending production of its plug-in hybrid Volt amid disappointing sales. The...
View ArticleHigher CAFE Standards: “There’s No Such Thing as a Free Lunch”
In July 2011, the Obama administration announced the new Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards that will begin taking effect in 2017. The standards for U.S. light-duty vehicle fleets...
View ArticlePlug In or Get Lost: Forcing a Shift to Alternative Cars
A new ruling requires US automakers to more than double average fuel economy by 2025 in a move that will push up prices for cars but more than offset the cost in fuel savings, but the longer-term...
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