The Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards are regulations in the  United States, first enacted by the United States Congress in 1975, after the 1973 -74 Arab Oil Embargo, to improve the average fuel economy of cars and light  trucks (trucks, vans and sport utility vehicles) produced for sale in the United  States.
consumers are no worse off than they are today, the agency has used a marginal  cost-marginal ben- efit (MCMB) analysis, which asks, “How high can we raise the  standards such that the benefits of each additional mile per gallon in fuel  economy outweigh the cost of the technology to get that additional fuel economy  boost?
Nov 27, 2012 ... The agency projects that energy efficiency efforts, such as tighter fuel economy  standards, will "prove increasingly important in moderating future demand growth .” We'll watch to see whether U.S. oil imports continue to fall. But based on  projections of the impact of the Obama administration's fuel efficiency ...
But the accumulating problems need to be addressed and resolved if the ... In this  chapter we analyze the energy consumption patterns in the transportation sector.  ..... An increase in fuel efficiency from 28.5 to 40 mpg represents a 40% increase.  If the number of miles driven does not increase between 1989 and 2001, this ...
Oct 10, 2017 ... Before Congress finalizes ill-conceived fuel economy standards that would  almost double auto industry mpg averages by 2025, while boosting costs of the ...  In the late 1970s, President Jimmy Carter, citing a need to reduce U.S.  dependence on OPEC oil, mandated a 53 percent increase in fuel economy ...
If we increase fuel efficiency standards to 40, 45 miles a gallon, we would have to import zero oil from the Middle East.