Last week’s newsletter (Part 1, #569) provided a statistical summary of responses to an NMA November online survey seeking feedback about CAFE (corporate average fuel economy) standards. Here, in Part 2, is where the rubber hits the road. Those taking the survey were given the opportunity to include commentary to explain their choices of whether […]
11 Blog Posts From the LETTER WRITING Tag
What U.S. Vehicle Fuel Economy Standards (if any) Should Be – Results of an NMA Online Survey, Part 2: NMA E-Newsletter #570
December 16, 2019
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Auto Industry, CAFE, Electric Vehicle, Fuel, Gas Tax, Infrastructure, LETTER WRITING, NMA, SAFETY, Technology
Caught in the Cogs of a Bureaucratic Machine – A Driver’s Story
This post first appeared as a November 2018 NMA Weekly E-Newsletter (#515). Since early August (2018), the Virginia Department of Motor vehicles continued to badger one of our Virginia members, Mike, about needing proof of insurance for a vehicle that only had, per agency records, 16 characters in its Vehicle Identification Number. Since VINs have […]
Are Drivers Losing the War on Cars?
January 25, 2019
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Automated Traffic Cameras, Bicycle, Driver's License, Gas Tax, LETTER WRITING, NMA, Policing for Profit, Red-Light Cameras, Road Diets, SAFETY, Speed Limits, Speed Traps, TOLL, Toll Roads, VISION ZERO
This piece first appeared as weekly NMA E-Newsletter #511 on October 28, 2018. Even though drivers constitute what should be the largest voting block in the country, you would never know it by apathetic motorists who drive blissfully unaware until they are confronted with the reality of the war on cars—which is essentially an effort […]
The 85th Call to Action (Time Sensitive): NMA E-Newsletter #517
December 10, 2018
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85TH PERCENTILE, FHWA, ITE, LETTER WRITING, NCUTCD, NMSL, SAFETY, SPEED LIMIT, Technology, VISION ZERO, VMT
The Fall 2018 issue of the NMA member magazine Driving Freedoms (“The Big Lie”) sounded a clarion call against the dismantling of established traffic engineering standards by the very agencies tasked with upholding those standards and protecting the public. Swept up in the Vision Zero dream of achieving zero road fatalities, the Federal Highway Administration […]
Caught in the Cogs of a Bureaucratic Machine: NMA E-Newsletter #515
Since early August, the Virginia Department of Motor vehicles continued to badger one of our Virginia members, Mike, about needing proof of insurance for a vehicle that only had, per agency records, 16 characters in its Vehicle Identification Number. Since VINs have exactly 17 characters, the DMV was asking for proof of a vehicle that […]
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