Bob Lutz said higher gas taxes will be more effective in boosting automakers' fuel economy than government standards requiring them to achieve fleet average miles-per-gallon targets.
Gas taxes and expensive lightweight materials are needed to meet the government's fuel efficiency and emissions regulations, retired General Motors executive Bob Lutz told engineers today at the 2013 SAE World Congress in Detroit.
Lutz called for common sense and honest debate in the "CAFE crunch and CO2 craze."
"Common sense dictates that if you want someone to use less of a given commodity, you raise the price of that commodity," he said. ...