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- If Government Could Envision the Benefits of a World With Less Cars
- Ryan Avent submits: Last week, I left my Washington home, walked to the nearby Metro station, rode a train downtown, walked to the National Press Club, and settled in to hear Steven Rattner, former head of the Obama administration's auto task force, declare that "no one has yet invented...
- External links 2009-10-28
- Automakers: Forget America, Think China and India
- Ryan Avent submits: There is no denying that America constitutes a massive market for vehicles. Of the 650 million or so cars and trucks registered around the world, over a third of them can be found in the garages of American households. The need to slowly replace that fleet,...
- External links 2009-07-30
- Increasingly, Legislators Coming Around About Rail Transport Subsidies
- Ryan Avent submits: Two things were clear at Tuesday morning's hearing of the Senate Banking Committee concerning green investments in public transportation. First, transportation experts and leading legislators are very much in agreement on how transportation spending should change. And second, Randal O'Toole's days as anything other than an...
- External links 2009-07-08
- Citigroup Recapitalization Program: Cash for Clunkers
- Ryan Avent submits: Steven Levitt doesn't like the numbers he's seeing in reported applications for Cash for Clunkers vouchers: The “Cash for Clunkers” program gives roughly a $4,000 subsidy when a person trades in a clunker for a new car that gets better gas mileage. by Ryan Avent
- External links 2009-08-04
- Pricing for Transport Subsidies: Why Not?
- Ryan Avent submits: Ok, mere hours into my first day and I already have requests. Commenter dWj has a good question: If we (Obama, Bloomberg, right-thinking Americans) ever get true carbon pricing and congestion pricing, does that mean we should quit subsidizing public transportation? Note that public transit creates...
- External links 2009-04-16
- Segway's Personal Electronic Vehicle: Nothing Says Success Like Teaming Up with GM
- Ryan Avent submits: Hey, so Segway and GM are going to work to produce a new two-person Segway-ish quasi-car. For what, you might ask? It doesn’t look like a particularly comfortable way to commute, and neither does it seem likely to work well in urban settings, where pedestrians and...
- External links 2009-04-07
- Demographic Changes and Suburban Transport Goals
- Ryan Avent submits: Matt Yglesias says a changing population calls for a changing urban structure: One thing that often comes up when I discuss policy shifts aimed at moving to a less car-dependent society is that someone will say that walkable urbanism may work for the callow and childless...
- External links 2009-04-21
- Can We Please Do Something About Rising Oil Prices?
- Ryan Avent submits: The global economy is likely to contract this year, and yet oil prices have risen back to $55 per barrel. If this keeps up, the price of oil is going to be a significant constraint on household budgets, and therefore on recovery. Why not pass a...
- External links 2009-05-07
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