Regulating Fuel Economy: Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards

March, 2003      Download this brief (PDF).

see related New York Times article
Fuel Economy Regulations Could be Revised
March 21, 2003

James L. Sweeney

James L. Sweeney is Professor of Management Science and Engineering, Senior Fellow of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution. His professional activities focus on economic policy and analysis, particularly in energy, natural resources, and the environment. At Stanford he has served as chairman of numerous engineering departments, programs and forums. He was a founding member of the International Association for Energy Economics, co-editor of the Journal Resource and Energy Economics, and vice-president for publications of the International Association for Energy Economics. He is a Senior Fellow of the U.S. Association for Energy Economics and a Fellow of the California Council on Science and Technology. He holds a B.S. degree from MIT in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in Engineering-Economic Systems.