Gas Price Equivalents in The Netherlands
New York Times columnist and foreign policy expert Thomas Friedman has written another gem about our oil addiction. He’s long advocated for higher gas and oil prices over the long term to force us to drive less and live more sustainably.
Here are a couple snippets from his most recent column, [...]
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Friedman: Next President Should Guarantee High Gas Prices…Forever
One alternative to transit…
The Miami Herald’s website is reporting that Florida International University is adopting four-day work weeks for most of its employees this summer, in order to save money on electricity by closing many of its buildings one day per week. Employees will still be required to work the requisite 40 hours each week, but will do [...]
Pic o’ the Day: Oil Addiction
Image: Carfreeusa.blogspot.com
(My) First $4.00+ Gas Sighting…
I’ve been waiting for this moment, probably for too long; it arrived rather uncerimoniously as I passed the Chevron at 72nd Av. on SW 24th Street in the unincorporated neighborhood of Westchester. Now, I’ve seen diesel being sold at $4.25 or so for at least the last month, but until this morning, I had not [...]
America’s New Independence Day
If Senators Clinton and McCain have their way, this summer Americans might be duped into thinking that a “gas-tax holiday” will help alleviate the financial strains of filling up. The gas tax holiday undermines the principles of supply and demand and is little more than a cheap political gimmick. If imposed, the holiday would [...]
Gas & Public Transit
The Herald reports this morning that more people are turning to transit these days, but not proportionally consistent with the large population of South Florida. It’s something we regularly say on this site: that as gas prices increase, so will transit ridership. Unfortunately the article tends to reflect the whole car culture of South Florida [...]
Wave Rolls On
Believe it or not, transit is a reality in the greater Miami area. The Fort Lauderdale city commission just voted to pay for 25% of the downtown streetcar project known as the Wave. That means they will provide $37.5 million of the estimated $150 million needed for the project. The next step for the Downtown [...]
Sun-Sentinel Reporter Ditches Car For a Week
After calling for people to join him in a gas boycott in this column, Daniel Vasquez has been blogging and recording his experience taking the bus or carpooling to work, combined with riding his bike for other errands every day this week. Read the posts and watch the videos on his Consumer Talk blog. It’s [...]
Friday News
Energy and oil is the dominant theme this week, however the articles about the Everglades and affordable housing in Miami are very troubling.
NY Times: Efforts to save the everglades are faltering
Newsday: Gas prices affecting community, car use
NY Times: Rising demand for oil provokes new energy crisis
KITV Honolulu: Gas prices have reached $5 per gallon in [...]
Relevant Headlines
Any former New Englander’s out there, this sounds familiar
Keep on risin’ gas prices
L.A. Times looks beyond bike lanes
Americans are driving less
Boycotting Gas Stations, The Fastest way to Accomplish Nothing Nationwide
For those of you that didn’t know, today was national boycott gas stations day, an ill-conceived plan to deal a financial blow to the oil industry for the steady increase in gas prices. Let me begin by clearly stating why this will not work: America is addicted to oil, if we don’t buy it [...]
Take a Dump!
It’s National Dump the Pump Day, which happens to land right in the middle of my Transit Miami Summer Transit Challenge. I implore all my readers to take a ride on South Florida’s public [...]
