Blog Roll: Should you pay a fee for fuel efficiency?
Writing at the Environmental Economics blog, Ohio State economics professor Tim Haab suggests a way to cut gas consumption and greenhouse-gas emissions: not quite a higher gas tax, but a “fuel-efficiency payment.” “Each year, drivers will be required to have their mileage checked at an authorized service facility,” he writes. “Based on the EPA-certified city fuel efficiency rating provided by the EPA for the specific type of car, the car owner will pay a fee per mile driven. The fee will be equal to the inverse of the EPA fuel efficiency figure.”
Continuing our theme of dogging Gongloff for every little perceived screwup, Tim is actually a professor of "AED" economics (i.e., Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics).
Tim knows surprisingly (and embarrassingly) little about plain-old-vanilla-economics. For example, I challenge him to fill in the blank correctly:
Fed Chair Ben B _ _ _ _ _ _ e.
(without a trip to Google.com)
