Consumer Federation of America, Fuel Economy and Auto Sales: Automaker and the National Highway Trafffic Safety Administration Ignore Market Signals, August 2008, by Mark Cooper: “This analysis explores important and fundamental flaws in the underlying economic assumptions made by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in proposing its 2011-2015 fuel economy standards for autos and light trucks which render the draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) insufficient. NHTSA’s proposed fleet wide standards, which reach a mere 31.7 miles per gallon in 2015, are grossly inadequate, robbing consumers and the nation of multiple billions of gallons of vital gasoline savings over the next decade. As a result, the DEIS measures the wrong alternatives and reaches the wrong conclusions about environmental impacts.”