Don’t be fooled by this ad Toyota is running during the 2018 Winter Olympic Games. Read more >
Toyota Cries Over Climate Change While Their Trade Groups Cry Over Climate Policy
Josh Goldman, senior policy and legal analyst, Clean Vehicles
February 21, 2018 1:15 PM EDT
Hurricane Season’s Impact at the Pump and Why Fuel Efficiency Matters
Don Anair, research and deputy director, Clean Vehicles
September 7, 2017 3:20 PM EDT
Gas prices are spiking. This week EIA reported an increase in the average price of gasoline of 28 cents per gallon – with some states seeing more than 40 cent increases. That’s the largest nationwide weekly gas price increase since hurricane Katrina in 2005.
What’s 28 cents worth you ask? More than a $100 million a day it turns out.
That’s bad, but it could be worse. Without vehicle fuel efficiency and emission standards that are currently in place, American drivers would be paying an average of $50 million more per day on fuel costs.
3 Reasons Why You Should Care About Vehicle Efficiency and Emissions Standards
Josh Goldman, senior policy and legal analyst, Clean Vehicles
September 5, 2017 10:14 AM EDT
Merely typing “vehicle efficiency and emissions standards,” feels like I’m prompting you to click off in search of the latest cat meme or 8,000th story on President Trump. But the next battle in the war for better vehicles looms, and you can help defend against automaker efforts to rollback a program they agreed to not so long ago.
President Obama: Keep Your Promise to Our Children, Commit to Making the Half the Oil Plan a Reality
David Friedman, former deputy director, Clean Vehicles
December 6, 2012 12:52 PM EDT
During his first term, President Obama made history by setting the first ever global warming emissions standards for both cars and trucks and putting our nation on a course to double new vehicle fuel economy by 2025, fulfilling his 2008 campaign promise to cut oil use 2.5 million barrels per day. Now it is time for him to cement his legacy on oil by going where none of his predecessors have gone before — President Obama must commit the nation to a realistic path to cut our projected oil use in half over the next twenty years. Read more >
New “Attributes” of the Clean Vehicle Standards
Jim Kliesch, former research director, Clean Vehicles
August 21, 2012 2:05 PM EDT
In order to grasp vehicle greenhouse gas and fuel economy rules, the first thing to understand is the so-called “attribute-based system.” In this second part of our “Anatomy of a Rule” mini-series, we’re going to take a moment to demystify it. Read more >
