In many countries, the revenue from gasoline taxes is used to fund highways and other
transportation infrastructure. As the number of electric vehicles on the road increases, this …

Corrective taxes can solve many market failures, but actual policies frequently deviate from
the theoretical ideal because of administrative or political constraints. We present a method …

Sociology has provided useful insights, especially in this journal, into energy consumption
trends and practices and how their climate-damaging effects can be mitigated. But in a …

Rebound effects occur when energy efficiency upgrades lead to less energy saving than
anticipated, compromising CO2 emission reduction. Studies of micro-level rebounds …

Like many energy efficiency standards, passenger vehicle fuel economy and greenhouse
gas standards apply to new but not used products. In theory, such vintage differentiated …

Output-based carbon regulations—such as fuel economy standards and the rate-based
standards in the Clean Power Plan—create well-known incentives to inefficiently increase …

Although economic theory suggests that both sales and fuel costs affect technology adoption
by vehicle manufacturers, there is very little empirical evidence on either effect. We …

Our goal here is to propose a large-scale reform of the fuel economy program-a kind of Fuel
Economy 2.0. Our reform has three main features. First, it would regulate expected fuel …

Fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions standards cover about half of all vehicles
globally. The US regulatory agencies predicted that standards for 2012 through 2016, which …

Nowadays, the commitment to reduce emissions in all productive sectors is more than ever a
paramount goal that each country in the world should try to achieve. The Kyoto Protocol and …