How the Low Cost of Driving Harms Us and Sabotages Our Cities

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If you live in the U.S., you may not think of gasoline as cheap. But the low fuel taxes we pay explain a lot of why we have a worse built environment than most E.U. nations, worse safety outcomes, and mostly abysmal transit. Come along as we walk through the depressing political reality.

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Previous CityNerd Videos Referenced:
– The Cost of Car Ownership: https://youtu.be/c2rI-5ZFW1E

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Resources:
– https://gasprices.aaa.com/
– https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/fact-915-march-7-2016-average-historical-annual-gasoline-pump-price-1929-2015
– https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl
– https://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/annual/showtext.php?t=pTB0208
– https://www.epa.gov/automotive-trends/explore-automotive-trends-data#DetailedData
– https://www.pgpf.org/budget-basics/budget-explainer-highway-trust-fund
– https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/early-estimate-2021-traffic-fatalities
– https://www.npr.org/2020/04/15/835571843/episode-991-lives-vs-the-economy
– https://www.npr.org/2023/07/01/1185652621/canada-wildfires-air-pollution
– https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/26/nyregion/nyc-congestion-pricing.html
– https://www.americanprogress.org/article/climate-deniers-117th-congress/
– https://www.eenews.net/articles/trumps-climate-denial-shapes-house-gop-backbench/
– https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/04/republican-democrat-candidates-climate-crisis
– https://www.vox.com/2015/12/2/9836566/republican-climate-denial-why
– https://unfccc.int/kyoto_protocol
– https://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/exhibits/show/green-building/kyoto-protocol
– https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2011/12/12/canada_first_nation_to_withdraw_from_kyoto_protocol.html
– https://afdc.energy.gov/data/10327
– https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2003:283:0051:0070:EN:PDF
– https://taxfoundation.org/value-added-tax-2022-vat-rates-in-europe/
– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_taxes_in_the_United_States
– https://afdc.energy.gov/data/10327

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Images
– California sales receipt By Peter Merholz from Berkeley, CA, United States – the bill — thank you adaptive path!, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2241629
– Pigouvian Tax By Jon513 – Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5592376
– Arthur Pigou By Unknown author – http://www.lancs.ac.uk/staff/ecagrs/gallery.htm, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16139454
– Fracking in North Dakota By Joshua Doubek – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=27166623
– State gas tax chart By Wikideas1 – Own work https://www.taxadmin.org/assets/docs/Research/Rates/mf.pdfLiberationreport.com, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=114428091
– Kyoto Protocol map By User:Canuckguy, User:Danlaycock – File:UNFCCC parties.svg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=35866083
– Hummer H2 By Rudolf Stricker – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2827579
– Lifted Ford F-250 By https://www.flickr.com/photos/diamondbackcovers/ – https://www.flickr.com/photos/diamondbackcovers/9301426026/, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=38521361
– Extreme Overkill truck By I, Luc Viatour, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4545339

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CityNerd background: Caipirinha in Hawaii by Carmen María and Edu Espinal (YouTube music library)

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