Every year, Americans drivers spend hundreds of billions of dollars on highway transportation. They pay for vehicles, maintenance, repair, fuel, lubricants, tires, parts, insurance, parking, tolls, registration, fees, and other items. These expenditures buy Americans considerable personal...

Motor vehicles and their related emission sources, such as petroleum refineries, emit many different kinds of air pollutants, which affect human health in a variety of ways. These health effects create a large economic cost to society. In this report, we estimate the social cost of many of the...

--We analyze the impact of the use of electric vehicles (EVs) energy consumption in general and petroleum consumption in particular. The analysis is conducted for sub-compact cars, small vans, and large vans for the years 1995 and 2010. We compare per-mile primary energy consumption of EVs and...

Personal non-monetary costs are those unpriced costs of motor-vehicle use that a person imposes on herself as a result of her decision to travel. The largest personal costs of motor-vehicle use are personal travel time in uncongested conditions and the risk of getting into an accident that...

In this Report, we seek to answer the question: “If the U.S. highway transportation sector did not use oil, how much would the U.S. Federal government reduce its military commitment in the Persian Gulf?†The analysis goes in four parts. First, we explain that the U.S. protects its...

In our analysis of the social cost of motor-vehicle use, many of our data sources, methods, and estimates of cost apply in the first instance to all classes of motor vehicles. For example, we are given, or can estimate from primary data, the following: - total government expenditures on the...

Personal non-monetary costs are those unpriced costs of motor-vehicle use that a person imposes on herself as a result of her decision to travel. The largest personal costs of motor-vehicle use are personal travel time in uncongested conditions and the risk of getting into an accident that...

In this Report, we explain how we model the contribution of motor-vehicles and other emissions sources to ambient air pollution.

We analyze the impact of the use of electric vehicles (EVs) on energy consumption in general and petroleum consumption in particular. The analysis is conducted for sub-compact cars, small vans, and large vans for the years 1995 and 2010. We compare per-mile primary energy consumption of EVs and...

In this paper, we review some of the basic energy balance and climate change impact issues associated with biofuels. For both the basic energy and greenhouse gas balances of producing and using a range of fuels, and for the increasingly debated and important issues of nongreenhouse gas impacts...