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Suburbanites Under House Arrest Without Wheels

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Margy Waller
31 August 2005 - 10:00am

Suburbanites can't get anywhere without a car, so higher gas prices will lead to "collapse" of the suburbs.

Mark Alan Hughes says, "The price of gas is NEVER going down in any significant and sustained way." So, "discretionary driving" is about to become the most important difference between city and suburban living. "When $5 gas makes getting to everything outside your house a calculation, then the suburbs will teeter; at $10, they'll collapse."

Full Story: THE END OF GRASS AS WE KNOW IT
Source: The Philadelphia Daily News, August 30, 2005
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Maybe we should blame Thomas Jefferson. He was the godfather of the urban sprawl racket in America.
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