[lbo-talk] anti-Suburban snobs, was petro-thusians

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Sep 25 08:45:42 PDT 2004


Jordan Hayes wrote:


>Doug says:
>
>> But if the price of transportation isn't adequately
>> reflecting the costs of environmental damage, their
>> choices are based on false information.
>
>... as opposed to all those other "choices" we make based on prices
>which DO adequately reflect the costs of the environment damage?

Did I say that? Did I say that market prices in general fully reflect social costs? I didn't because I don't think so. But the disparity seems especially egregious with cars; even a $2/gal, gas is preposterously cheap. The U.S would look rather different if gas were $5/gal.

Doug



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