HeritageFoundation Subscribe

Does the Heritage Foundation misstate results of a CAFE-safety study?

The video above, "The Energy Debate: Just the Facts," is from the Heritage Foundation and includes the results of a study on CAFE and safety that I think may have been misstated. The video starts out by asking the loaded question "why will raising CAFE standards hurt Americans?" to which Ben Lieberman, a Senior Policy Analyst at The Heritage Foundation, answers: Raising CAFE standards will make cars less safe. In order to meet these standards cars have to be made smaller which makes them less safe in crashes. The National Academy of Sciences ... Read more →

Overview of Snake Oil Policy, or another look at energy bills pending in Congress Mike Magda

Need a rundown of the energy policy bills before Congress? At least one man's view? Ben Lieberman, a senior policy analyst at the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation, has comments worth ...

Does the Heritage Foundation misstate results of a CAFE-safety study? 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Overview of Snake Oil Policy, or another look at energy bills pending in Congress 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Need a rundown of the energy policy bills before Congress? At least one man's view? Ben Lieberman, a senior policy analyst at the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation, has comments worth reading and debating. Basically he says: Oil rationing would raise the price of oil to unprecedented ...

Featured
Breaking
Popular

View all

Tip of the Day

Guide to Common Green Acronymns

CAFE – Corporate Average Fuel Economy. A system used in the U.S. to define mileage requirements of new vehicles.

Featured Galleries

Team Autoblog Green

Editor-in-Chief

Sebastian Blanco: Email

The Team