“Setting the Global Bar for Energy Efficiency.”
Council on Competitiveness Recommendations to Reward Efficiency
Published September 2009
The Council Recommends that:
• Congress set the 2030 CAFE standard to 100 mpg and provide more federal transportation funding to states that are the most effective in reducing vehicle miles traveled per person.
• All states decouple utility rates from gross energy sales and focus on providing utilities with a reasonable rate of return on all their investments.
• Congress set the 2030 CAFE standard to 100 mpg and provide more federal transportation funding to states that are the most effective in reducing vehicle miles traveled per person.
• All states decouple utility rates from gross energy sales and focus on providing utilities with a reasonable rate of return on all their investments.


