I’m intrigued by (Oregon) Governor Kulongoski’s speech last Friday on transportation and global warming. It’s not many politicians who are brave enough to consider peak-hour tolls, which are also known as congestion pricing.
London and Stockholm have found that these reduce rush-hour traffic by about 20%, which is huge in the transportation context. The tolls were highly unpopular at first, but became more accepted as people found themselves spending
Tags: carbon footprint·congestion pricing·gas tax·global warming·Governor Kulongoski·highways·pricing signals·roads
Last night my friend Jean gave me the first chapter of Lester Brown’s book Plan B to read. Whoa.
I learned that when the International Center For Technology Assessment studied the entire cost of the gas in our cars, including the military costs of protecting access to Mideast oil and the health care costs of treating illnesses created by air pollution, what our country is really paying for gas is not
Tags: carbon footprint·cars·climate change·commuting·cost of living·culture·economics·environment·gas·gas prices·global warming·health care·Lester Brown·market prices·Plan B·pricing signals·subsidy
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