Is the cheap price of gasoline in the nation's past, combined with federal policies in the 1950s heavily promoting hghway construction, in part to blame for the death of the urban areas and the development of cheaper land (i.e., farms and undeveloped land) but distant (at that time) from the economic centers of our country?
2006-09-07 03:55:42 · 4 answers · asked by kingstubborn 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Damn skippy.
But never fear. As gas prices continue to soar, and they most certainly will as the billion soulds of India and the billion four of china all modernize, it will become increasingly expensive to live in the burbs. Cities have already begun to rise from the ashes. Neighborhoods have new life in them and even though the home and rents are higher, the higher cost of housing is still often lower than the cost of housing in the burbs combined with the cost of maintaining a car.
The cheaper the cost of gas, the less people take mass transit, the more pollution and sub urban sprawl. Its not a sustainable form of growth and we can either take care of it now, or pay for it later.
2006-09-07 04:07:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suppose we could blame that, but blame assessment at this point seems ludicrous. It's like blaming Gutenberg for deforestation due to paper production.
Humans are always short-sighted in regards to the future. When a lifetime goes by in less than a century, it is hard to focus on the potential impacts of what one does today. We're probably only a generation or so into being able to seriously ponder (as a society) the impacts of our activities several centuries from now.
All of that said, I agree that it created part of the problem we face now. Something no one has touched on that bothers me is how we have wiped out our freight train industry in favor of trucking. Now, I believe both have their place, but you should drive the I-10 out of Phoenix headed to LA sometime. It's like a slalom course dodging the steady stream of trucks. I'm pretty sure they use more combined diesel to haul between the two than trains running the same freight would.
2006-09-07 11:09:57 · answer #2 · answered by Crusader1189 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As it becomes a rarer resource, yes.
2006-09-07 11:12:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
gas will be $2.40 a gallon right around election time
2006-09-07 11:04:12 · answer #4 · answered by hichefheidi 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋