Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Gas Prices

Gas Costs More? Fill ’Er Up!

By Sarah Goodyear | | 6 Comments
Rising gas prices may be causing a reduction in driving. That makes sense. What doesn’t is the news that in spite of increasing pain at the pump, SUV sales are on the upswing. This, from the San Francisco Chronicle: The numbers for large SUVs rose nearly 6 percent in the first quarter of 2007, and […]

Hey, Wanna Buy a Minicar?

By Sarah Goodyear | | 12 Comments
General Motors would like you to like them. No, really. That’s why, at the New York International Auto Show yesterday, they revealed three new concept minicars aimed at the urban market. Called the Groove, the Beat and the Trax, they’re new skins for the same basic guts found in a Chevy Spark or Daewoo Matiz […]

Pedaling Protest Takes on Car Show

By Jason Varone | | 6 Comments
The Chicago Tribune reports:   Dressed as polar bears and Santa Claus and towing signs that read "True Patriots Don’t Burn Oil" and "Be a Hero: Drive Less," a group of bicyclists gathered Saturday in front of McCormick Place to protest the Chicago Auto Show. "We feel there are enough cars in Chicago," said Dan […]

The Cost of Sprawl on Low-Income Families

By Aaron Donovan | | 8 Comments
Via the Manhattan Institute’s new blog, Streetsblog learns of a pdf-formatted report entitled A Heavy Load: The Combined Housing and Transportation Burdens of Working Famillies, which looks at the housing and transportation expenses paid by lower income families in a number of cities. The report, published by the Center for Housing Policy, a K Street […]

The True Cost of Gasoline, and What to Do About Energy

By Aaron Donovan | | 10 Comments
The news media has been writing a lot about energy and oil addiction lately.  One particularly noteworthy package of reporting highlights the hidden problems of oil addiction. Another searches for ways it could be alleviated but misses the most critical one. The first is The Chicago Tribune’s enormously important four-part series by Pulitzer-winning reporter Paul Salopek […]

Charles Komanoff’s “Fuel Tax Magic”

By Aaron Naparstek | | No Comments
New York City economist and activist Charles Komanoff has been focused lately on developing and promoting the idea of a "carbon tax." Carbon taxes are still still very much considered fringe economic theory and politically unviable, though, as you read Komanoff’s latest essay in Grist, you have to wonder how long that will last. The […]