Posted on 01/27/2011 1:57:35 PM PST by decimon
Congress should pass a federal gas tax on consumers instead of continuing to impose CAFE regulations on automakers, says the CEO of Edmunds.
Jeremy Anwyl, who heads the iconic source of auto information, again raised the idea he has long advocated via his blog Tuesday and in conjunction with his attendance at the 2011 Government/Industry Meeting of the Society of Automotive Engineers taking place this week in Washington, D.C.
CAFE, or Corporate Average Fuel Economy, regulations are designed to promote fuel efficiency and require an automaker's fleet to meet a specific average gas mileage.
Anwyl said that spurring a desire in consumers for better gas mileage would have a greater impact on reducing gas use, regardless of what kind of technology is used to get there.
"Raise the price of gas and the playing field tilts. Consumers will start making free choices that also help save fuel and improve the environment," Anwyl said in his blog post.
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Never heard of this guy — he certainly doesn’t sound like an American.
When three golf courses is just not enough..
Every once in a while, some fool spills the beans on why most taxes exist: a means to distort the free market.
Let's have more taxes.
WTF ?
ML/NJ
I have always relied upon Edmunds for new car pricing information. I have saved many hundreds of dollars when it came time to buy a new car.
No more.
I’ll use Kelly Blue Book.
This would close the US down real fast.
Yeah. Well, I will be sure to adjust my ‘Give a Damn’ monitor from its zero-peg when this idiot passes away.
You got it, another ?*&%$# foreigner (I dont’ want to be banned for saying what I really think of that pasty faced, snaggle toothed group who lost the commonwealth and live on a pitiful little soggy island full of broken relics).
Jeremy is a BRIT and I think he should go back to where he came from.
No need for me to consult Edmunds anymore. Too many alternatives now.
Jeremy Anwyl joined Edmunds in January 2000 as Chief Operating Officer and was promoted to President in November 2000. Born and educated in the United Kingdom, Mr. Anwyl began his U.S. business career consulting for independent automobile dealers. This led him to form Marketec Systems Inc. in 1990, through which he consulted for General Motors, Ford, Toyota and Nissan. Since joining Edmunds, he has led a number of projects that have helped to elevate the company to a leadership position in the automotive industry, top of mind for automotive consumers and executives alike.
Sounds more like another attempt by the Free Trade Communist Globalists....along with their Cap And Trade partners...to seize privately owned cars.....by making it too expensive to drive.
Free Traders, Cap And Traders, Globalists seem to be following, verbatim, Al Gore’s “Earth in the Balance” book. Of course, Al Gore is a notorious Free Trade Communist and a Global Warming Hoax/Cap And Trade Fascist
He deserves tar and feathers!
I guess improving the performance of a product like the automobile isn’t necessary. I wonder how far he drives to work everyday.
sounds as stupid as something Consumer Reports would write.
“Anwyl” is Welsh for “A-hole!”
Do any of these dunderheads realize that for most of us, the mileage we put on our vehicles every day is a vital and necessary part of our lives?
Many of us have already cut out unneeded driving as much as we can. The rest of it is for getting back and forth to work, the grocery store, paying bills, buying supplies, etc. A $2 gas tax would strain many budgets to the breaking point.
Mr. Anwyl can stick his gas tax where the sun doesn’t shine.
Yep! $5.00 p/g gas should get us back on our feet!~sarc. Do this and you’ll see an increase on the “Commodities Market” Tar - up, Feathers - up
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