Not exact matches
Texas is more sparsely populated, it has lower
gasoline prices, and 2 percent of its labor force commutes
via public transportation, as compared to 5 percent in California.
Energy
prices (average
gasoline and retail electricity
price) and public infrastructure (share of working population commuting
via public transportation) were important in explaining the interstate variation in the use of transportation fuels and residential electricity and are readily addressed by climate and energy policies.
The Asahi Shimbun reports (
via GCC) that Toyota will shift its strategy for the North American market to fuel - efficient small and mid-size cars in response to high
gasoline prices and a slowing US economy.
MA at 396:» I submit that when the costs of AGW are internalized
via a carbon tax, the higher
price of
gasoline will persuade more Hummer drivers to trade them for Priuses (or bicycles, if the
price of gas goes high enough) than public shaming will.»