POLICY CONFLICT - ENERGY, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND MATERIALS: AUTOMOTIVE FUEL-ECONOMY STANDARDS' IMPLICATIONS FOR MATERIALS
The demands for energy conservation, environmental protection, and stable raw material supplies and prices are strongly competitive, and the complexity of this relationship has not been recognized in forming Federal policy. The focus of this report is the fuel-economy standards for new cars and light trucks and how these regulations may indirectly affect the future price and availability of certain key materials used by American industry. They are aluminum, iron and steel, plastics, and rhodium.
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Corporate Authors:
U.S. General Accounting Office
441 G Street, NW
Washington, DC United States 20548 - Publication Date: 1980-2-5
Media Info
- Pagination: 48 p.
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Aluminum; Automobiles; Conflict (Psychology); Demand; Energy conservation; Environmental protection; Equipment; Estimates; Federal government; Fuel consumption; Iron; Materials; Metals; Plastics; Policy; Prices; Stability (Mechanics); Standards; Steel; Supply
- Uncontrolled Terms: Availability
- Geographic Terms: United States
- Old TRIS Terms: Government policies; Rhodium; Supply economics
- Subject Areas: Energy; Environment; Geotechnology; Highways; Materials; Policy; Vehicles and Equipment; I34: Steels and Metals; I96: Vehicle Operating Costs;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00313484
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
- Report/Paper Numbers: EMD-80-22
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Jun 26 1980 12:00AM