Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Gas Prices

What Will Our Future Be Like If We Don’t Change How We Get Around?

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 5, 2013 | No Comments

How will Americans get around in the year 2030? A recent report from the RAND Corporation lays out two “plausible futures” developed though a “scenario analysis” and vetted by outside experts. While RAND takes a decidedly agnostic stance toward the implications of each scenario, the choice that emerges is still pretty stark. In the first […]

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Mounting Transportation and Housing Costs Devour Household Budgets

By Ben Goldman | Feb 29, 2012 | No Comments

On Monday we wrote that Americans can’t afford a transportation bill that locks households into the expenses of car dependence. Yesterday the Center for Neighborhood Technology hammered the point home, releasing new data showing how communities are getting less and less affordable nationwide. Only 28 percent of American communities meet CNT’s definition of “affordable,” which accounts for […]

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Wastefulness

By Charles Komanoff | Feb 6, 2012 | 19 Comments

The Republican presidential campaign recently produced a couple of characteristic bits of what Americans, for lack of a better word, call “news”: Newt Gingrich declaring that New Yorkers “live in high rises and ride the subway” and thus don’t care about gasoline prices; and Tea Party “activists” in Virginia, Florida and Maine convinced that smart-growth […]

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Trapped By Car Dependence: Stories From Commute-Battered Americans

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 31, 2011 | No Comments

Meet Darren Flenoy, a Bay Area security guard who lives 40 miles from work. Gas costs him about $500 a month. His car payment is another $500. On top of that, he spends $80 per month on insurance and $180 on tolls. In total, Darren’s commute costs him half of his monthly income. He must […]

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Federal Energy Forecast: Gas Nearing $3/Gallon, Fuel Consumption Up

By Elana Schor | Apr 8, 2010 | No Comments

Average gas prices are expected to hit $2.92 during this summer’s peak driving season, with fossil-fuel consumption rising overall as the economy begins to recover from a recession that limited U.S. emissions growth, according to a forecast released this week by the federal Energy Information Administration (EIA). (Photo: Pop and Politics) The EIA’s latest short-term […]

Steven Chu Forced to Recant Belief in Higher Gas Prices

By Ben Fried | Apr 24, 2009 | 12 Comments

The indignities are piling up for Steven Chu, the Nobel laureate Secretary of Energy whom environmentalists applauded as one of Obama’s best cabinet picks. His security detail won’t let the lifelong cyclist bike to work. And on Earth Day, he fielded questions like this one (via Talking Points Memo) during a House hearing on the […]

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