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Change now or change never
The longer we wait to move away from gasoline, the more high gas prices will hurt |
Ryan Avent |
05 May 2008 |
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| Like Americans, Europeans are generally not fond of rising fuel costs. Unlike Americans, they're much better at handling them. It isn't difficult to understand why; they simply planned ahead. Geoffrey Styles writes: A big part of our problem is that most Americans are still driving cars that were purchased when gasoline was under $1.50/gal., to commute between work and home locations that were chosen when fuel was even cheaper ...As of this week, nominal U.S. retail ga ... |
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| Topics: energy, European Union, fuel efficiency, oil, placemaking, urban planning (all these topics) |
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