KOMANOFF: High Gas Prices Are Reducing Driving!
Pricing has power. Changes in the prices of goods and services affect demand for those items. And that's happening with gasoline right now, despite what Streetsblog says!
July 20, 2022
Opinion: Alternatives to California’s Pro-Car Giveaway
Of the myriad motorist giveaways now being rushed into place around the U.S., none sting like California’s.
The specifics of the so-called relief plan are still being worked on. But the basic shape is expected to hew to the contours posted by Newsom’s office this past week and shown further below: $9 billion in payments to households of $400 per registered car (limit of two per family) and just $2 billion to make transit cheaper
March 28, 2022
KOMANOFF: Skyrocketing Gas Prices Won’t Unjam U.S. Roads
Only a stiff congestion price can meaningfully cut traffic congestion. And only organizing can get us better transit and safe bicycling networks.
March 11, 2022
Lithium Mining: The Hidden Environmental Cost of EVs
The Green New Deal is clearly better than our carbon-based catastrophic course. But it also depends on massive amounts of lithium — and extracting it will carry a big environmental cost of its own.
February 9, 2021
KOMANOFF: Beware the EV Congestion Boomerang
February 8, 2021
KOMANOFF: New York, U.S. Must Reverse the Charges on Diesel Tampering
December 7, 2020
KOMANOFF: Takeaways from America’s Diesel Pickup Pollution Disaster
December 1, 2020
KOMANOFF: Downturn in U.S. Driving Led Global CO2 Decline
U.S. cars and trucks, the source of 5 percent of world carbon emissions, have accounted for a whopping 20 percent of this year’s global dip in carbon pollution. Can we keep that going?
November 18, 2020
KOMANOFF: Restaurant Patio Heaters Will Be a Net Gain for the Climate
September 25, 2020
KOMANOFF: New York Times Starts Embracing ‘Future without Cars’
July 12, 2020
