All Posts Tagged With: "fuel efficiency"
Government-Reformulated Gas: Bad in More Ways than One
The amended Clean Air Act (CAA) of 1990 called for cleaner automobile-engine combustion and a reduction in tailpipe emissions. To meet these goals, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) directed the petroleum industry to modify the composition of gasoline to comply with the “Oxygenated” and “Reformulated” Gasoline (RFG) Programs. While only those parts of the country [...]
1Sep2003 | Michael Heberling | 1 comment | ContinuedDon’t Bash SUVs
The world is full of people who can’t mind their own business and who think they know what’s best for the rest of us. If only we’d be smart enough to put them in charge, they figure, the world would be a better, more rationally planned place. Things would run more smoothly and efficiently and nobody’s greed would be satisfied at anyone else’s expense. The world’s scarce resources would be husbanded for the benefit of all.
1Oct2001 | Lawrence W. Reed | 1 comment | ContinuedDriving America: Your Car, Your Government, Your Choice
John Semmens is an economist with the Laissez-Faire Institute in Chandler, Arizona. Driving America is a well-reasoned brief on behalf of the automobile. The car is the travel option of choice because it offers a fast, comfortable, convenient, and affordable way of getting where one wants to go. Nevertheless, there are those who would sacrifice [...]
1Nov1998 | John Semmens | 0 comments | ContinuedFreedom and the Car
Loren Lomasky teaches philosophy at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. This essay was originally produced as a working paper for the Competitive Enterprise Institute. A longer version appeared in Independent Review. Years before the automobile evolved into a transportation necessity, before meandering mudded ruts were replaced by multilaned asphalt, pioneering motorists took to the [...]
1Dec1997 | Loren Lomasky | 2 comments | Continued-
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