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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Studies have shown clearly that the CAFE standards, which raise average gas mileage, have had almost no effect on gasoline consumption. People drive by the total cost of driving--that is, because they need to spend less on fuel, they drive more. So hybrid drivers, predictably, will simply drive more than they otherwise would.
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I just don't see how you could study that. The amount that I drive is dictated, foremost, by the locations of my family's housing, work and school. Cheap gas might prompt me to move farther out, but how would you design a study to control for that? The sort of sprawl surrounding most American cities has continued to grow in recent years.
At any rate, I was advocating taxing gasoline, not raising the CAFE standards.
