A small fuel price increase would not have done much immediately, but longer term it would have accelerated the shift to more fuel efficient vehicles.
Not exact matches
The long - run trend indicates that demand for
smaller, more
fuel - efficient cars has
increased relative to demand for light trucks because of rising gasoline
prices.
The
price of
fuel fluctuates so wildly year - to - year and yet every time the
price goes down sales of larger SUVs and trucks
increase and
small cars languish on dealer lots.
Jet
fuel prices are down 22 percent this year, but an ongoing series of
small increases has kept air fares above 2013 levels.
More importantly, CARD assumes that if the motor
fuel supply were 10 %
smaller, refiners would not
increase output to sell more of their product at higher
prices.