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Moving on out
There are limits to the positive environmental change we can expect from high gas prices |
Ryan Avent |
22 Jan 2008 |
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| You can scarcely pick up a paper or turn on the television these days without hearing the word recession. Leading economic indicators have wiggled in different directions over the past few months, but the general trend appears to be negative. The conventional wisdom points toward an economic downturn of some kind during 2008, and businesses in all sorts of consumer markets are bracing for the inevitable tightening of purse strings. A funny thing happened on the way tow ... |
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| Topics: consumerism, economy, energy, gas prices, oil, placemaking, sprawl, urban planning (all these topics) |
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