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(Continued)...Milwaukee or from San Diego to Los Angeles or San Francisco to Sacramento. Instead, the momentum of our government's road-building machine may build a road that few will know about, care about, or use.
$20 Per Gallon: How the Inevitable Rise in the Price of Gasoline Will Change Our Lives for the Better | 
(Continued)...Milwaukee or from San Diego to Los Angeles or San Francisco to Sacramento. Instead, the momentum of our government's road-building machine may build a road that few will know about, care about, or use.
The author predicts that this type of insanity will end once gas prices hit $16 a gallon.
When gas hits $14 (Asphalt Part 2 of 2)
When gas hits $14 a gallon (Asphalt Part 1 of 2)
Manhattan alone has 70,000 people per square mile.
It's important to realize that electric cars, though they will be swinging to popularity, can't and won't stop our assimilation into cities. Getting an electric car will be possible, but they won't be cheap and they won't be plentiful; and our thorough changeover to electric cars will take decades. In the meantime, many people will be looking to drive less or not at all.
But in the end, as gas prices climb past $10 and higher, Disney World will undoubtedly be closed, economics having the final, decisive say on the matter.
The irony here is that infrastructure is largely paid for through a built-in tax on gasoline. So the higher that gas prices get, the less people drive, which continues to exacerbate the problem of terrible infrastructure.
What happens at $8 a gallon. He goes on to write:
Planes burn up an inordinate amount of jet fuel just getting up to cruising altitude, so shorter flights cost more per mile. Few people will pay $750 for a 200-mile flight, so major air service between cities in the same regions will cease.
With $8 gasoline, the American domestic network will contract to 50% of its size. Midsized towns with decent air service currently, like Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Dayton, Ohio, will lose most of their flights. A coast-to-coast ticket will cost closer to $1,000 than $200.
A $1 rise in gas means 11,000 fewer lives lost to obesity-related causes and $11billion per year saved on health costs.
It goes on to say that if gas prices stayed at $4 for an entire year, it would save a thousand lives every month. Currently, 36,000 people are killed every year on the roads. At $6, 15,600 lives would be saved annually. At $8, 18,000 lives saved a year. At $10, 20,000 lives.
What happened in 2008 when gas prices briefly hit $4.
This statistic is from 2009. As of 2018 in China, there were 173 cars for every 1,000 people.
I read this book several years ago, and always vowed to read it again because it is endlessly fascinating. And with everything that is currently happening with gas prices, it now seems like a good time to do so.⛽
pickDon't dismiss this book by saying, "Yeah, I already know. High gas prices lead to less driving, which is good for the environment." This book is so much more than that. Gas prices effect almost everything, and it seems as if there's nothing regarding this issue that Christopher Steiner hasn't thought about. This fascinating work is the type of book that you don't want to just read, but memorize as well.
