Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

In a study published in the journal Energy Economics , MIT researchers have found that a fuel economy standard is at least six to fourteen times less cost effective than a fuel tax when targeting an identical reduction in cumulative gasoline use (20% by 2050).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2013

A case study of the impact of a driving restriction policy implemented in Beijing prior to the 2008 Olympics found short-term benefits, but also a pattern of rule-breaking and loss of those benefits over time, as residents adapted by changing travel times; buying a second car with a different license plate; or simply violating the rules.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2010

users pay for the construction and maintenance of roads via a federal fuel tax. Revenues from the tax go into the federal Highway Trust Fund, which is independent of the General Fund; every five years or so Congress passes an authorization bill to allocate these revenues. States use similar mechanisms. —Huang et al.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2010

The fuel use of motor coaches could be lowered by 32% for an estimated $36,350 per bus, which would be cost-effective if the price of fuel is $1.70 For other vehicle classes, the financial investments in making improvements would be cost-effective at higher prices of fuel. The report urges Congress to consider this approach.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

The nonpartisan US Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that federal policies to promote the manufacture and purchase of electric vehicles, some of which also support other types of fuel-efficient vehicles, will have a total budgetary cost of about $7.5 billion through 2019. That effect may be large. Cultivate local PEV clusters.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2012

Proponents of the surtax argue the fee is needed to offset losses in state gas tax revenues since EV owners don’t need to buy gas. As a practical matter, there are currently so few electric vehicles on Washington’s roads today that their impact in replacing fuel tax revenues will, for now, be negligible.

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GM Washington Tax Fuel Tax 218

EV Adoption

MARCH 9, 2021

He wants Congress and the Biden administration to approach charging infrastructure the same way Tesla went about building its Supercharger network. 580 battery EV drivers were surveyed in the study. “Now the federal government is in a position to look at all electric transportation with that same lens.” Cloud Times.

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