I am offering something to the auto industry - the opportunity to make their vehicles more fuel-efficient at zero (production) cost.
After all, the auto industry could argue, what really matters is not how many miles the _vehicle_ gets per gallon, but how many miles per gallon it gets _per passenger_... Suppose the car comes (voluntarily) equipped with a little electronic box. Every time you take a trip in the car of more than X miles, you get some kind of economic/pollution control credit if more than one person made the trip. You demonstrate this by everybody in the vehicle swiping their cards in the electronic box, like frequent flyers on an airline. The electronic box has a GPS that counts the miles. Each time the driver and passengers earn credit, the auto manufacturer earns economic/pollution control credit too, giving them an incentive to promote the program... On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Michael Perelman <[email protected]>wrote: > Good idea, but not Pareto optimal, unless you offer something to the auto > industry. Remember Pareto optimality is a formula for inaction. > > > > > -- > Michael Perelman > Economics Department > California State University > Chico, CA 95929 > > Tel. 530-898-5321 > E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu > michaelperelman.wordpress.com > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Robert Naiman Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected]
_______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
