tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80332131115448735352024-02-20T21:25:19.073-06:00Autosprawl WelfarePut an end to it with free transit.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger128125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033213111544873535.post-1482261331748920662021-04-29T17:55:00.000-06:002021-04-29T17:55:11.016-06:00Externalities - unpaid cost of cars - radioactive oil industry waste<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">What the oil & gas industry innocently refers to as "brine," a waste product from fracking, can have 443x the radium the Nuclear Regulatory Commission allows in the discharge pipe of a nuclear power plant. Great profile of a brine hauler from <a href="https://twitter.com/JustinNobel?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JustinNobel</a> <a href="https://t.co/KxUAJ5Na4J">https://t.co/KxUAJ5Na4J</a></p>— Drilled (@WeAreDrilled) <a href="https://twitter.com/WeAreDrilled/status/1387914262551486464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 29, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033213111544873535.post-6055649257925900902020-05-21T17:45:00.000-06:002020-05-21T17:45:08.417-06:00One externalitiy -- unpaid cost -- of cars and sprawl, is cancer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It’s been more than a dozen years since the metaphorical alarm was first sounded, and yet the residents of Fort Chipewyan still don’t know what’s killing them.<br />What they do know is that there are still elevated rates of cancer in the northern Alberta community. They also know that nothing's been done to address the issue, despite community leaders asking for further investigation for years.<br />“It’s like a silent killer. You don’t know what it is that’s out there, what’s causing you to get sick,” said <a href="https://www.nationalobserver.com/2016/12/13/news/first-nations-chief-heart-oilsands-resistance-says-hes-no-environmentalist">Chief Allan Adam</a>, leader of Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation since 2007. Adam was in Ottawa last week campaigning, once again, to get answers for his community.</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/12/17/features/downstream-oilsands-death-cancer-comes-too-often">https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/12/17/features/downstream-oilsands-death-cancer-comes-too-often</a> </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033213111544873535.post-14728664605822231802020-03-11T19:49:00.004-06:002020-03-11T19:49:55.747-06:00UK to spend £27.4bn over next five years on roads<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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On the back of new chancellor Rishi Sunak’s announcement of £27.4bn in investment for the UK’s roads in today’s budget, the Department of Transport has published its strategy for revamping the UK’s motorways and “A” roads. </blockquote>
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The funding will go towards the both the enhancement and repair of existing roads as well as completing a raft of prominent new projects around the country.</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.cityam.com/budget-2020-government-announces-27-4bn-roads-revamp/">https://www.cityam.com/budget-2020-government-announces-27-4bn-roads-revamp/</a> </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033213111544873535.post-46835737209969025792020-03-07T23:51:00.000-06:002020-03-07T23:51:02.859-06:00New Zealand car drivers are subsidized by rate-payers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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But a surprisingly large amount don’t seem to know that driving does as well – 90% of roads in New Zealand are not fully funded out of fuel excise, but draw on local rates money as well (the exception being State Highways). Most times you drive your car you are not paying your own way, but are being subsidised by ratepayers.</blockquote>
<a href="https://talkingtransport.com/2020/03/08/free-public-transport/">https://talkingtransport.com/2020/03/08/free-public-transport/</a> </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033213111544873535.post-8448545111503610312020-02-25T01:15:00.002-06:002020-02-25T01:15:23.056-06:00Half of new oil production in US requires subsidy at $50 price<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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"We find that, at recent oil prices of US$50 per barrel, tax preferences and other subsidies push nearly half of new, yet-to-be-developed oil investments into profitability, potentially increasing US oil production by 17 billion barrels over the next few decades."</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-017-0009-8.epdf?referrer_access_token=wy82deCvtL2c8Nv3NBS05NRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0OyLLEcIVrbwv-XjMBX8LWWB2g_8NrEtgaMO-NNni2OWqcEeU7hkvG9h_XiMBDIxiW4R89d1XH_N7rKD0_v7GsV32ZlnRDv3Be4jjkDCbsUyT36tKgpO104TUIuR4mFTueyf-mff6bpPlaPaTxfXDw-DnqIk4zqo0tQVMg1wzpr5wr21MshcUQQ0vh8GWSpsgBwdkfRk2mvgi6TbFda9FTgHuzFhykr5uI3bWEk5xJD3g%3D%3D&tracking_referrer=blogs.scientificamerican.com">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-017-0009-8.epdf?</a> </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033213111544873535.post-51240459152518068572020-02-18T01:44:00.003-06:002020-02-18T01:44:59.333-06:00British Columbia giving taxpayer gift of $5.35 billion gift to Gas company<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The “right” fiscal framework amounts to a <a href="https://thenarwhal.ca/ndp-offers-tax-breaks-subsidies-attract-b-c-s-single-largest-carbon-polluter-lng-canada/">bouquet of government subsidies</a> for B.C.’s largest carbon polluter, including tax reprieves, tax exemptions and cheaper electricity rates for some of the largest and most profitable multinationals in the world — the LNG Canada quintet of Royal Dutch Shell, Mitsubishi Corp., Malaysian-owned Petronas, PetroChina Co. and Korean Gas Corp. </blockquote>
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At a technical briefing for media, a B.C. senior government official pegged the province’s total financial incentives for the project at $5.35 billion.</blockquote>
<a href="https://thenarwhal.ca/lng-canada-project-called-a-tax-giveaway-as-b-c-approves-massive-subsidies/">https://thenarwhal.ca/lng-canada-project-called-a-tax-giveaway-as-b-c-approves-massive-subsidies/</a> </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033213111544873535.post-57966458380357985612020-02-16T22:13:00.003-06:002020-02-16T22:13:57.824-06:00Anti-business tax to support cars - let's get cars off welfare<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Densely populated metropolitan areas like New York City have become ground zero for clashes among cars, bikes and trucks competing for limited parking spaces. For delivery companies, the tight fit means racking up huge parking fines as a cost of doing business.</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.freightwaves.com/news/ups-hit-with-22m-in-nyc-parking-fines/amp">https://www.freightwaves.com/news/ups-hit-with-22m-in-nyc-parking-fines/amp</a></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033213111544873535.post-78640076727734881552020-02-14T22:46:00.000-06:002020-02-14T22:46:27.728-06:00Trolls still asking "who will pay for #freepublictransport?" while EU votes €24 billion for gas<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Energy projects on the 4th PCI list are eligible to receive up to 50% of funding from the EU through the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF). Among the 151 projects included on the list, 55 new fossil gas projects have sparked the greatest backlash. </blockquote>
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"This decision could unleash €24 billion in finance for climate-wrecking pipelines and €1.7 billion for new LNG (liquified natural gas) terminals, which eclipses the €7.5 billion of new resources due to be raised to tackle the climate crisis through the EU's plans for a 'Green Deal,'" said Clemence Dubois, campaigner at climate group 350.org.</blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.dw.com/en/eu-votes-for-more-gas-infrastructure-angering-climate-activists/a-52351386">https://www.dw.com/en/eu-votes-for-more-gas-infrastructure-angering-climate-activists/a-52351386</a></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033213111544873535.post-7103526510699124982020-02-09T09:12:00.000-06:002020-02-09T09:12:00.625-06:00No money for #freepublictransit, but $260B needed to clean up oil mess<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Cleaning up Alberta's fossil fuel industry could cost an estimated $260 billion, internal regulatory documents warn.</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.nationalobserver.com/2018/11/01/news/alberta-regulator-privately-estimates-oilpatchs-financial-liabilities-are-hundreds">https://www.nationalobserver.com/2018/11/01/news/alberta-regulator-privately-estimates-oilpatchs-financial-liabilities-are-hundreds</a></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033213111544873535.post-55251972632733699702020-02-09T09:02:00.000-06:002020-02-14T22:42:06.272-06:00100,000 oil wells need clean up in Alberta, Canada<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The number of wells in the province slated to be remediated is about 3,000. However, there are more than 100,000 unproductive wells that will need to be cleaned up.</blockquote>
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"The mess continues to grow," said Mark Dorin, who has had a problem well for more than a decade on his family's land near Didsbury, a town located 80 kilometres north of Calgary. For several years, the well was leaking gas into the air. His mother, Shirley, said it impacted her health when she would be out in the yard.</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5089254?">https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5089254?</a> </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033213111544873535.post-57587608911387577622020-02-02T14:53:00.001-06:002020-02-02T14:53:45.836-06:00Drivers do not pay for roads<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A report <a href="http://www.uspirg.org/sites/pirg/files/reports/Who%20Pays%20for%20Roads%20vUS.pdf">published earlier this year</a> confirms, in tremendous detail, a very basic fact of transportation that’s widely disbelieved: Drivers don’t come close to paying for the costs of the roads they use. Published jointly by the Frontier Group and the U.S. PIRG Education Fund, “Who Pays for Roads?” exposes the myth that drivers are covering what they’re using.</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/10/driving-true-costs/412237/">https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/10/driving-true-costs/412237/</a> </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033213111544873535.post-55416204411322800472020-02-02T14:42:00.002-06:002020-02-02T14:54:13.243-06:00Academic study shows how US law favors autos and driving<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A century ago, captains of industry and their allies in government launched a social experiment in urban America: the abandonment of mass transit in favor of a new personal technology, the private automobile. Decades of investment in this shift have created a car-centric landscape with Dickensian consequences.</blockquote>
<a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3345366">https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3345366</a> </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033213111544873535.post-1691193319024375342020-01-29T21:26:00.001-06:002020-01-29T21:26:14.162-06:00Externalities are costs incurred by for-profit firms that are not accounted for <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A new report shows that Dublin is the 17th most congested city in the world, with motorists spending an average of eight days and 21 hours sitting in peak traffic a year.<a href="https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2020/0129/1111720-traffic-congestion-report/">https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2020/0129/1111720-traffic-congestion-report/</a></blockquote>
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How much would you charge your employer for 8 days and 21 hours of your time? This is what we are giving free to the oil-auto-and-sprawl for-profit industries.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033213111544873535.post-44007313682989046032020-01-08T07:14:00.004-06:002020-01-24T22:05:59.142-06:00Roads do not pay for themselves<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Highways do not—and, except for brief periods in our nation’s history—never have paid for themselves through the taxes that highway advocates label “user fees.” Yet highway advocates continue to suggest they do in an attempt to secure preferential access to scarce public resources and to shape how those resources are spent.</blockquote>
<a href="https://frontiergroup.org/sites/default/files/reports/Do-Roads-Pay-for-Themselves_-wUS.pdf">https://frontiergroup.org/sites/default/files/reports/Do-Roads-Pay-for-Themselves_-wUS.pdf</a> </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033213111544873535.post-84978348779389116632019-12-03T04:39:00.002-06:002019-12-03T04:39:43.822-06:00Fossil fuel subsidy measured in the Trillions of US dollars<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://theconversation.com/amp/vast-subsidies-keeping-the-fossil-fuel-industry-afloat-should-be-put-to-better-use-119954?">theconversation.com</a></blockquote>
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Instead of free market capitalism versus the climate, we have <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334249435_Fossil_Fuel_Welfare_versus_the_Climate">fossil fuel welfare versus the climate</a>. And if we reinvested that fossil fuel welfare into social and ecological welfare, we could create a much more socially and ecologically prosperous future.</blockquote>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033213111544873535.post-46569156013984666262019-11-25T20:03:00.002-06:002019-11-25T20:03:33.197-06:00Kansas City, MO, $10 million a year for just downtown parking!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The other step is improving how we spend money to stimulate economic development. After the recession, national firms came to us and said we’ll invest in downtown, but in exchange we need real guarantees and asked us to subsidize parking-garage costs. [In the last 10 years] taxpayers spent about $100 million subsidizing parking garages for these companies.</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/ask-an-expert-kansas-city-is-exploring-free-transit-should-seattle/">https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/ask-an-expert-kansas-city-is-exploring-free-transit-should-seattle/</a> </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033213111544873535.post-89011068623897348422019-11-13T19:03:00.001-06:002019-11-13T19:03:55.644-06:00Free parking. One of the biggest subsidies to oil, autos, and sprawl.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Free parking seems to be part of the normal order of our streets, like traffic lights and crosswalks. Although metering often exists near retail and during busy times, experts estimate that approximately <a href="https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2011/03/22/new-york-has-81875-metered-parking-spaces-and-millions-of-free-ones/">97%</a> of the city’s curbside parking spaces are given away at no cost.</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-trade-free-parking-for-free-mass-transit-20191113-qdlrk64czrhyjejaxxsw7hky7y-story.html">https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-trade-free-parking-for-free-mass-transit-20191113-qdlrk64czrhyjejaxxsw7hky7y-story.html</a> </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033213111544873535.post-49339197245122393422019-10-17T18:04:00.002-06:002019-10-27T23:11:59.552-06:00US annual direct cost of potholes to drivers $3 billion<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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According to the American Automobile Association (AAA), pothole damages to U.S. motorists total about $3 billion per year. On a per-pothole-incident basis, that works out to about $300 per driver.</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.pothole.info/2018/04/the-cost-of-car-damages-from-potholes/">https://www.pothole.info/2018/04/the-cost-of-car-damages-from-potholes/</a> </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033213111544873535.post-34388508494643197442019-09-22T19:29:00.000-06:002019-09-22T19:29:03.246-06:00GM's Oshawa plant looking for more #autosprawlsubsidy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The proposal to preserve auto manufacturing in Oshawa calls for a federal investment of $1.4 billion to $1.9 billion to transform the existing facility into a plant that would produce electric vehicles for government agencies such as Canada Post.</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/oshawa-gm-plant-ev-transformation-1.5291582">https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/oshawa-gm-plant-ev-transformation-1.5291582</a> </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033213111544873535.post-55132870625508967482019-07-22T20:00:00.000-06:002019-07-22T20:00:37.802-06:00US fossil fuel subsidy at $649 billion per year<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A new International Monetary Fund (IMF) <a href="https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2019/05/02/Global-Fossil-Fuel-Subsidies-Remain-Large-An-Update-Based-on-Country-Level-Estimates-46509">study</a> shows that USD$5.2 trillion was spent globally on fossil fuel subsidies in 2017. The equivalent of over 6.5% of global GDP of that year, it also represented a half-trillion dollar increase since 2015 when China ($1.4 trillion), the United States ($649 billion) and Russia ($551 billion) were the largest subsidizers.</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesellsmoor/2019/06/15/united-states-spend-ten-times-more-on-fossil-fuel-subsidies-than-education/amp/?">https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesellsmoor/2019/06/15/united-states-spend-ten-times-more-on-fossil-fuel-subsidies-than-education/amp/?</a> </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033213111544873535.post-84481876654735182942019-06-24T07:13:00.005-06:002020-03-02T10:13:19.659-06:00#Autosprawlsubsidy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2015/04/the-social-costs-of-driving-in-vancouver-in-1-chart/389805/">https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2015/04/the-social-costs-of-driving-in-vancouver-in-1-chart/389805/</a></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033213111544873535.post-67682369756442051912019-06-11T16:42:00.004-06:002019-06-16T05:13:17.045-06:00Fossil-fuel subsidized at the rate of $10 million per minute<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Fossil fuel companies are benefitting from global subsidies of $5.3tn (£3.4tn) a year, equivalent to $10m a minute every day, according to a startling <a href="http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.aspx?sk=42940.0">new estimate by the International Monetary Fund</a>.</blockquote>
<a href="https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/18/fossil-fuel-companies-getting-10m-a-minute-in-subsidies-says-imf?">https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/18/fossil-fuel-companies-getting-10m-a-minute-in-subsidies-says-imf?</a> </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033213111544873535.post-51303717648008378142019-02-02T04:08:00.001-06:002019-06-26T22:37:07.630-06:00Long list of costs and expenses of the subsidized auto system<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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According to <a href="https://mobility.tamu.edu/ums/">analysis by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute</a>, the average American commuter spends 42 hours per year stuck in rush-hour traffic. In the Los Angeles area, the figure is nearly twice that, equivalent to more than three days. A 2015 <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-traffic-still-tops-crime-economy-as-top-l-a-concern-poll-finds-20151007-story.html">Los Angeles Times poll</a>found that among residents of that city, traffic concerns exceed those pertaining to personal safety, finances or housing costs.
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The total cost of traffic associated with lost time and wasted fuel <a href="https://static.tti.tamu.edu/tti.tamu.edu/documents/ums/archive/mobility-report-2010-wappx.pdf">exceeds $100 billion</a> per year. As time slips away, idling vehicles add pollution, which has environmental and health consequences, including contributions to climate change. Long-term exposure to vehicle exhaust is associated with <a href="https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1164/rccm.200403-281OC">respiratory problems</a>, especially in children.</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/21/upshot/stuck-and-stressed-the-health-costs-of-traffic.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/21/upshot/stuck-and-stressed-the-health-costs-of-traffic.html</a> </div>
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Air pollution from cars and vans racks up health bills of nearly £6bn every year in the UK, according to a new report by researchers at the universities of Oxford and Bath.<br />The costs to both the NHS and society at large were highest in cities, and diesel vehicles were the worst offenders in terms of harmful pollutants.<br />In total, the scientists concluded the health cost of an average car in inner London over the vehicle’s lifetime was nearly £8,000. For diesel cars this figure was nearly double.</blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/cars-air-pollution-cost-nhs-vans-vehicles-health-bills-lung-disease-a8384806.html">https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/cars-air-pollution-cost-nhs-vans-vehicles-health-bills-lung-disease-a8384806.html</a> </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033213111544873535.post-61285770382592929992018-07-11T07:04:00.001-06:002018-07-11T07:04:07.489-06:00Hidden cost of sprawl, the minutes of your life<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://www.apartmentlist.com/rentonomics/increase-in-long-super-commutes/">apartmentlist.com </a>While super commuters still represent a small share of the overall workforce, their long commutes have become increasingly common over the past decade. In 2005, there were about 3.1 million super commuters, roughly 2.4 percent of all commuters. By 2016, that share had increased by 15.9 percent to 2.8 percent of all commuters, or about 4 million workers. In some parts of the country the problem is much worse; in Stockton, where James lives, 10 percent of commuters travel more than 90 minutes to work each day.</blockquote>
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