The primary objectives of recent energy initiatives have been: (1) lowering greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions; and (2 … examines the impacts and costs of transportation-based policies on light-duty vehicle fleet energy usage and emissions. Using … the 2010 elastic version of the US Environmental Protection Agency's Market Allocation (MARKAL) model, recent increases in …

The recent rise in world oil prices, coupled with heightened interest in the abatement of greenhouse gas emissions, has … paper, we evaluate the interplay between two of the largest biofuels programs, namely the renewable fuel mandates in the US …, using the historical period from 2001-2006 for purposes of model validation. This was a period of rapidly rising oil prices …