Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Gas Prices

Talking Headways Podcast: Uber and the Case of the Hidden Gas Tax

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 11, 2014 | No Comments

Uber is celebrating. DC passed an Uber-legalization law that Uber thinks cities the world over should follow. The problem is, most cities have much more tightly regulated taxi industries than DC, with a far higher cost of entry. In those cases, letting Uber get away with providing taxi services while complying with none of the […]

Making Transit Better Isn’t Enough. Driving Needs to Be Worse.

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 21, 2014 | 91 Comments

So transit ridership is up. Everybody knows that. It’s at its highest point since 1956. Right? Well, ridership per capita is still less than half its 1956 point. And by 1956, transit ridership was already at a 40-year low. But with transit growing faster than car travel, at a rate that outpaces population growth, there […]

#GOPHipster Ads Try to Reach Young People With Gas-Price Populism. Oops.

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 20, 2014 | 18 Comments

How embarrassing. The Republican National Committee’s outreach to young potential voters misses the mark so badly they’re just proving the point they were hoping to disprove: The party is absolutely clueless about young people. Exhibit A: the whiny young #GOPHipster in this RNC ad (the party calls it the “Create Your American Dream” campaign but […]

Millennials Will Drive More As They Age, But Still Less Than Their Parents

By Tanya Snyder | May 14, 2013 | 20 Comments

At some point over the past few years, a lot of my friends started moving to Silver Spring and Takoma Park and Falls Church. These inner-ring, transit-connected suburbs of DC are still far less compact and walkable than the neighborhoods my friends moved from. So they bought cars. Why did they do this? They’re entering […]

Which States Are Breaking Free From Oil Dependence? NRDC Ranks All 50

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 19, 2012 | 3 Comments

When it comes to helping their residents get around without breaking the bank, California, Oregon, Washington, Massachusetts, and New York are the top five states in the nation, while Nebraska, Alaska, Mississippi, Idaho, and North Dakota bring up the rear. That’s according to a new report by the Natural Resources Defense Council. NRDC ranked every […]

John Boehner Makes Stuff Up About Gas Prices

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 5, 2012 | 1 Comment

Out of thin air, House Speaker John Boehner sent an email yesterday with the subject line, “Labor Day Pain: Gas Prices Have Doubled on President Obama’s Watch.” As evidence of the “doubling” charge, Boehner links to his own website, where he claims, “The average price for a gallon of gasoline was $1.85 when President Obama […]

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