Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Energy

Back in the Saddle?

By Brad Aaron | Jun 5, 2008 | 9 Comments

Gas Prices Altering Rural Life in More Ways Than One The front page of The Messenger, June 4th, 2008 Brad Aaron is on assignment in the Southeast this week. My hometown of Madison, North Carolina, lies in the Piedmont-Triad region near the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, just south of the Virginia line and […]

Joe Lieberman: Did Someone Say “High Gas Prices”?

By Brad Aaron | May 28, 2008 | 23 Comments

How obsessed is Washington with gas prices? Acting on a Streetsblog post from last week, a reader wrote Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman urging him to support legislation that would bolster funding for Amtrak. In response, Lieberman’s office sent a long, long form letter outlining the many ways the senator is — you guessed it — […]

National Poll: Americans Expect Gas Prices to Rise More

By Ben Fried | May 27, 2008 | 20 Comments

Fifteen Percent Live Near Convenient Transit Options By a margin greater than four to one, Americans think the price of gas is more likely to hit $5 per gallon than drop to $3 per gallon, according to poll results released last week by Survey USA. With a rash of stories about how drivers are changing […]

Q Poll Finds Americans Opposed to Gas Tax “Holiday”

By Brad Aaron | May 15, 2008 | 2 Comments

For what it’s worth, a Quinnipiac poll released today again shows that Americans aren’t buying into the Clinton-McCain gas tax "holiday" gimmick. By a 49 – 41 percent margin, American voters say eliminating the federal gas tax for the summer is a bad idea… Republicans split 45 – 46 percent on the gas tax ‘holiday,’ […]

Electeds Go to the Mat for Cheap Gas

By Brad Aaron | May 14, 2008 | 7 Comments

Desperate to look as if they’re responding to motorists complaints and prayers, state and federal electeds continue to scramble for a quick fix to ever-rising gas prices. In Albany, Senate Republicans have adopted the state gas tax "holiday" as their issue of the moment. Since the largely-ridiculed measure is going nowhere in the Assembly, Joe […]

Mixed Messages From Critic of NY Gas Tax Holiday

By Ben Fried | May 8, 2008 | 9 Comments

Following the lead of John McCain and Hillary Clinton, the State Senate voted yesterday to suspend New York’s gas tax for the summer. The move was largely symbolic, as the governor and Assembly speaker have both indicated they won’t support the bill. Senator Liz Krueger, a Democrat from Manhattan, immediately issued a statement condemning the […]

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