US efforts to reduce light-duty vehicle fuel use have focused primarily on policies aimed
directly at vehicle fuel economy not use, eg fuel economy standards and research on …

Economic analysis generally favors fuel taxation as an efficient policy for dealing with
climate and environmental externalities related to fuel consumption and emissions in the …

This paper assesses the costs and effectiveness of several energy policies for light-duty
motor vehicles, using NEMS-RFF. The National Energy Modeling System (NEMS) is a …

This study explores the role of market power on the cost-effectiveness of policies to address
fuel consumption. Market power gives manufacturers an incentive to under-(over-) provide …

From 1864 to 1972, the real price of oil fell by, on average, over one percent per year. This
trend dramatically broke when prices for crude increased by over 650 percent from 1972 to …

Since 1975, the fuel economy of new light-duty vehicles sold in the US has almost doubled.
Fuel economy improvements on laboratory tests gradually became real improvements on …

In this paper we attempt to understand how policy interventions could improve the fuel
economy of drivers without changing the vehicles they drive or the trips they take. To do this …

Using data on all new vehicles registered in Canada from 2000 to 2010, we estimate the
elasticity of the fuel economy of the new vehicle stock with respect to gasoline price. We find …

This article discusses automobile fuel economy standards in the United States and other
countries. We first describe how these programs affect the automobile market, including …

The relationship between gasoline prices and the demand for vehicle fuel efficiency is
important for environmental policy but poorly understood in the academic literature. We …