Rose-Marie Chaperon

Fuel Efficiency



Posted: Wednesday, December 09, 2009

by Rose-Marie Chaperon
Chaperon Consulting, LLC

Corporate Average Fuel Economy also known as (CAFE) was the standard provision enacted in 1975 as a policy. The main idea was oil conservation; they wanted to make vehicles more fuel efficient. The CAFE standards now mandate that the fuel economy of new cars sold by companies equal or exceed 27. 5 miles per gallon for passenger vehicles and 20. 7 miles per gallon for light trucks. These standards are enforced by imposing large fines on automobile manufacturers. The underlying premise of the existing system, as well as the new proposals, is that it is important to reduce gasoline consumption and that increased CAFE standards can achieve that. Why should the car manufacturers be responsible to increase their vehicles gas mileage just to help the environment? This is the question that those who will be impacted by this decision were asking (Doren, 2002) .

The fuel cost has increased by 114% for new cars and for new light truck the increase was 56% for light trucks on the same token there was an increase of up to 52% of U.S. consumption of imported oil (Doren, 2002) . The government's responsibility should not be to tell car manufacturers to what type of cars to build, their responsibility should be to should increase the gasoline tax and leave decisions about vehicle design and gasoline consumption to the normal interplay of car manufacturers and consumers.

If we ask auto makers to absorb the cost to make fuel-efficient vehicles, that raises the risk that cash-strapped automakers will take the fastest and cheapest route to building more fuel-efficient vehicles by making them smaller and lighter. In my opinion, I think that will raise a risk of safety issues. I think the smaller cars are the less safe they are against larger vehicle on the road.

REFERENCES Doren, W. A. (2002, 03 01). Government Should Steer Clear of the Fuel Economy Issue. Retrieved 11 24, 2009, from Cato: http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3409
Rose-Marie Chaperon also works as a Director of Revenue Cycle for healthcare operations. Rose-Marie's experience is process improvement and redesigning patient access and patient financial services areas. Rose Marie is an exceptional A/R guru and has held many Business Office and Patient Financial Services positions throughout her twenty-year tenure in revenue cycle. She is a very proactive leader and the kind of person who can direct a group of people towards their goals. Rose Marie has experience with a variety of software systems and led three hospitals through a system conversion during her assignments there. Rose-Marie is a Certified Healthcare Access Manager (CHAM). Rose-Marie can be reached via e-mail: rosechaperon@hotmail.com or rchaperon@shenahaiti.org

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