Appendix I GAO Marketplace Competitiveness Electric Vehicles: Efforts to Complete Advanced Battery Consortium has not proven that Appendix I GAO Marketplace Competitiveness Full Disclosure of National Energy Strategy DOE's energy efficiency research may be less effective while energy prices are low. Low prices discourage the use of energy-efficient technology. Higher energy prices would encourage research, but administration did not pursue policies to raise prices. Appendix I GAO Marketplace Competitiveness Alternative Fuels: Experiences of Brazil, Canada, and New Zealand in Using Alternative Motor Fuels (RCED-92-119) Governments became the catalyst for action to encourage industry to promote use of alternative fuels through lower taxes and price subsidies. Providing lower prices through subsidies was most important reason why consumers bought alternative fuels. Sustained government commitment important because switch to alternative fuels requires long-term financial, technological, and regulatory changes. Appendix I GAO Marketplace Competitiveness Alternative Fuels: Experiences of Countries Consumers' acceptance of alternative fuels Appendix I GAO Marketplace Competitiveness Fossil Fuels: Outlook for Utilities' Potential Use of Clean Coal Technologies (RCED-90-165). Without acid rain mandates, utility industry willing to use clean coal technologies at only 5 percent of coal-fired units. With mandates, industry would consider using technologies at up to 50 percent of units to reduce SO2 and up to 75 percent of units to reduce NOX. Technologies may not contribute to acid rain reduction in next 15 years due to uncertainty about when they will be available. |