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laodan rated 8 months ago- subsidies for auto travel in Metafilter by salvia
In the U.S., motorists do not pay their way. The US government spends more on highways and other auto-related expenses than it receives from auto-related taxes, unlike almost every country in Europe. In a recent report [pdf], Mark Delucchi calculates automobile-related costs and revenues in three different ways and concludes the subsidy is around 20-70 cents per gallon or $24-105 billion in 2002. But what are automobile-related costs, you ask? subsidies for auto travel In the U.S., motorists do not pay their way Do motor-vehicle users in the US pay their way? 22 pages PDF by Mark A. Delucchi in ScienceDirect concluding that "The analysis indicates that in the US current tax and fee payments to the government by motor-vehicle users fall short of government expenditures related to motor-vehicle use by approximately 20\u201370 cents per gallon of all motor fuel. (" Social Cost of Transportation Mark A. Delucchi's reports and articles. A gold mine of data for those interested in understanding the impact of the public decision to favor the car industry over public transportation. U.S. MILITARY EXPENDITURES TO PROTECT THE USE OF PERSIAN-GULF OIL FOR MOTOR VEHICLES 65 pages PDF by Mark A. Delucchi and James Murphy. Excellent post by Salvia that opens our horizons to the impact of public policy and the non-neutrality of science and technology. The comments on the post are also well worth a read. In short: 1. Science and technology are not neutral they are results of investments decisions by capital holders and political decisions to smooth the ride of those investments. Thus the political decision to invest in a road network instead of expanding the rail network... 2. Each year, in the US, road transportation kills 40 000+ and seriously injures hundreds of thousands. In China, in 2006, it killed over 120,000... 3. By investing in a road network the state explicitly guaranteed to protect the supply of what powers the network: oil. Foreign relations and defense would thus be engaged in protecting the country's oil supplies. 4. Un-intended consequences are only measured afterwards is it not?. And so late-modernity is plagued with the un-ending chain of side-effects of modernity.
- subsidies for auto travel in Metafilter by salvia
