Tag Archives: end of cars

Rolling Up the Sidewalks

October 30, 2018 – 10:16 am

I’ve been predicting the end of cars for years. My late father debunked my soothsaying with the comment, “You don’t know what you’re talking about. They’ll always be cars.” In the 1930s his father was a country doctor in Maine and drove to his patients in a sled. Only in the winter. The above picture […]

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No More Cars

August 3, 2012 – 12:13 am

Gas prices in Thailand are running about 38 baht or $1.25 a liter. These prices are as expensive as the USA and sucking money out of people’s wallets faster than the cars can drive on the Asia Highway. There is no shortage of gas, but prices have been pushed up by oil speculators to reap […]

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The World Minus Cars

April 23, 2012 – 10:41 am

The price of gas in Thailand is well over 40 baht a liter. In New York the cost per gallon is close to $4 several petroleum experts are predicting $200/barrel by summer’s end. That will push gas over $5 a gallon. Driving is already down from the heights of 2007 and public transit is booming […]

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