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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I don't doubt that CAFE standards are ineffective. If you want to discourage people from driving, you need to make it more expensive.
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I suppose there are two questions.
1) Have CAFE standard contributed at all to a reduction in gasoline consumption.
2) Are there less socially expensive ways to achieve a comparable reduction in gasoline consumption.
While 1 may be in dispute, 2 is not--there are far better ways, but they piss of fringe because she thinks it's the Man sticking it to the poor commuter.
BTW, CAFE does not make driving more expensive--precisely the opposite. It lowers the marginal cost of driving, which means greater consumption. The only expense it raises is the fixed cost of starting out, but as you know that has no effect on marginal cost of consumption.
