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92 comments on First Principle: End Fossil Fuel Subsidies

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fleam on November 25, 2006 - 1:52pm Permalink | Subthread | Comments top
Before I discovered Peak Oil, I had discovered the anti-car movement, and read books by some lady who's well known, in anti-car principles. So well known I have absolutely no memory of her name or any of her book titles, but trust me she's well known! And she, as well as other writers, maintain that if all subsidies were removed, gas would cost about $6-$7 a gallon in the US. This is before the recent spike in gas prices too.

Look around you, and the "enabling" of car-addiction in the US is amazing. I know this is the New York section of TOD, and it may seem  strange to you, in a city where a person is a bloody fool to own a car (or merely has more money than brains and a high appetite for punishment) but in most of the US, things are rigged highly in favor of car ownership. There are even charities on the radio asking for people's "extra" cars to donate to the poor, way to go, give them a thing they'll have to work 2 jobs and eat out of Dumpsters to support. I have never once heard a "buy a bicycle for the poor" campaign.

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ashaddock on November 25, 2006 - 3:19pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
are you thinking of Jane Jacobs?
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fleam on November 25, 2006 - 11:03pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
No, she has some name like Holzt or something like that, Holsze? Didn't come over on the Mayflower (like mine did) so I'm not obligated to remember it I guess.... she went carfree herself for years and lived ..... somewhere in the Northeast of the US.
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Badger Peaknik on November 26, 2006 - 11:13am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Fleam

You're thinking of Jane Holtz kay, author of Asphalt Nation.

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vtpeaknik on November 25, 2006 - 4:46pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Actually, here in Vermont, besides the local "donate a car to the poor" program, there is a local bicycle-refurbishing organization, that accepts unwanted bicycles and gives them (after fix-up) to low-income people.  They've processed hundreds of bikes thus far.  (And this is a small-population area.)  Their efforts may or may not have anything to do with the notable increase of bicycle use around here.
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