Analysis of Feebate Design In Rhode Island

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Analysis of Feebate Design In Rhode Island

• Revenue Neutrality
• Average sales tax revenues should be 7
• feebate from 0-14, 7 to 21 (assuming
  uniform sales) or some other combination such
  that weighted mid-point is 7
• Feebate(Vm)(M-Mo)
• Correct for administrative costs

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Design (cont.)

• Only GHGs or GHGs and CAPs?
• Rationale
• How to weight each
• Caps on feebates?
• Cheap highly efficient vehicles or equity
  concerns
• Feebates separated by weight class?
• Perverse impacts

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Design (cont.)

• Leakage, consumer equity, legal issues, etc.
• How to prevent buyers from moving across the
  border to purchase their vehicles?
• How to ensure fairness?
• Maryland proposal withdrawn on the basis of
  federal challenge legality untested.

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Feebate Programs
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Feebate Programs (cont.)
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Vehicle Data
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Feebate Comparisons for Some Representative
Vehicle Choices