Rebuttal: Standards and subsidies are blunt instruments — vehicle efficiency standards don't reduce vehicle usage, for example — and are often contested for years and then undermined by «gaming» (viz., the «light trucks» exemption from CAFE standards, or tax credits for hybrid SUV's).
Not exact matches
This summer the administration delayed a federal rule set to take effect in July, that increased the penalty for automakers who built
vehicles that
did not meet minimum fuel
efficiency standards.
Commenting on the rating Kevin Stride,
vehicle line director, Jaguar XE, XF, F - PACE said, «The XE and XF were engineered without compromise: we placed just as much focus on safety as we
did on dynamics, performance, refinement and
efficiency, and our stringent in - house
standards far exceed the requirements of legislative and consumer tests.
* While I was a Member of the Climate Change Authority, I put a lot of work into a report the Authority
did on
vehicle fuel
efficiency standards.
The oil and gas industries have been aware of the climate repercussions for decades.They have had ample time to prepare, just as the auto industry had ample time to start (and continue) building seriously energy efficient
vehicles but didn't until government bailouts in 2008 were paired with higher
efficiency standards.
Australia is one of the few developed countries that
does not impose fuel
efficiency standards on motor
vehicles.
Ottawa has moved with the United States on tougher
vehicle -
efficiency standards: It is promising to introduce sector - by - sector emission rules but has been slow to
do so.