Greetings Economists,
On Jun 23, 2008, at 12:23 PM, Gar Lipow wrote:
If if you were in a suburb there would be zip car location within
walking distance of your home, you would rent the zip car, drop it off
at the train station, get a train within five minutes, get off at the
other end,walk to your desitination of that was your best choice or
rent another electric car to to drop off point near your destination.
In the long run houses near stations would become more valuable,
houses further less - there would be lobbying for more stations, and
develpment near existing stations. But that would be a long term
process.
Doyle;
At first I was thinking sort of your response to Doug's query but I
realized he was asking how sprawling suburbs can survive? No matter
what you do according to the above the suburbs must be rebuilt. True
suburbs emerged before car culture, but they can't survive without
cars as they are. I don't see a combination of trains and electric
cars offering a smooth transition from the present sprawl to the same
spread out car culture.
The first reason is that oil will rapidly become a problem before
trains can be built to replace car commuting.
Second electric power is not itself free of carbon dioxide which means
a lengthy process of substitution that strangles car culture long
before the electric car infrastructure gets implemented.
thanks,
Doyle Saylor
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