What’s Better for the Environment: Raising the Gas Tax or Fuel-Efficiency Standards?

Excerpt from Infrastructurist. by Eric Jaffe
Morris makes some strong points here — without even mentioning the fact that a gas tax increase, unlike higher fuel-economy standards, will also generate revenue for the Highway Trust Fund. (If anything, raising CAFE will hurt gas tax revenues, since fuel-efficient cars don’t have to be filled up as often.) The gas tax is also better for congestion, and consequently the accident rate, and we still get the benefit of a cleaner fleet over time, because high gas costs will create a demand for fuel-efficient cars.

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