All Posts Tagged With: "automobiles"
Gridlock: Why We’re Stuck in Traffic and What to Do About It
Congestion is five times worse than in 1995. Why? What should we do about it? Those questions drive Randal O’Toole’s Gridlock. The main reason for the increase, the author writes, is that beginning in the 1960s, “Many people looked at the costs of the automobile without considering the benefits, and their solution was to get [...]
21Apr2011 | Gary M. Galles | 26 comments | ContinuedThe Distorting Effects of Transportation Subsidies
Although critics on the left are very astute in describing the evils of present-day society, they usually fail to understand either the root of those problems (government intervention) or their solution (the operation of a freed market). In Progressive commentary on energy, pollution, and so on—otherwise often quite insightful—calls for government intervention are quite common. [...]
22Oct2010 | Kevin A. Carson | 51 comments | ContinuedLiving with Mass Transit
The foes of the automobile have long sung the praises of mass transit as the savior of Mother Earth. The automobile pollutes and enables human beings to spread out over the surface of the earth, paving over an alarming amount of green land. Automobiles regularly kill more people than all of our wars. It’s utter [...]
1Sep2002 | Stephen Browne | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Fraud of Seat-Belt Laws
On the promise of reducing highway fatalities and auto insurance rates, seat-belt laws began to pass in state legislatures throughout the United States beginning in 1985. While such laws had been proposed before 1985, they were rejected by most state legislators since they knew the vast majority of the people opposed them. “The Gallup Opinion [...]
1Sep2002 | William J. Holdorf | 54 comments | ContinuedEnemies of the Automobile
Ralph Clark is a professor of philosophy at West Virginia University. The automobile age is approximately 100 years old. With the approach of a new century and new millennium there could be no better time to celebrate the automobile for its profound contributions to human happiness. Unfortunately, automobiles have enemies. An influential movement is underway [...]
1Nov2001 | Ralph W. Clark | 1 comment | ContinuedAmerica’s Forgotten Entrepreneur
Anthony Young is a freelance writer based in Florida. Among the ranks of American entrepreneurs in the first half of the twentieth century, the name Powel Crosley is virtually unknown. Nevertheless, Crosley’s inventiveness and persistence made him one of the most recognized individuals of the period and his products known to millions. His impact is [...]
1Oct2001 | Anthony Young | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Smart-Growth Scam
H. Nathan Hart recently graduated from Birmingham-Southern College in Birmingham, Alabama. Paul Cleveland is an associate professor of economics at Birmingham-Southern College. Transportation is essential to the daily life of nearly every American. Millions of people flock onto the freeways and streets to accomplish innumerable tasks each day. Americans love their cars. No other mode [...]
1Jul2001 | and H. Nathan Hart | 2 comments | ContinuedDriving Forces: The Automobile, Its Enemies, and the Politics of Mobility
Over the last two generations a battle between the automobile and its enemies has raged in most urban regions. Aligned against the automobile is an elite composed of self-appointed visionaries who believe they have the answer to how urbanized man should live. On the other side we have the masses of common people and the [...]
1Nov1999 | John Semmens | 0 comments | ContinuedDriving America: Your Car, Your Government, Your Choice
John Semmens is an economist with the Laissez-Faire Institute in Chandler, Arizona. Driving America is a well-reasoned brief on behalf of the automobile. The car is the travel option of choice because it offers a fast, comfortable, convenient, and affordable way of getting where one wants to go. Nevertheless, there are those who would sacrifice [...]
1Nov1998 | John Semmens | 0 comments | ContinuedFreedom and the Car
Loren Lomasky teaches philosophy at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. This essay was originally produced as a working paper for the Competitive Enterprise Institute. A longer version appeared in Independent Review. Years before the automobile evolved into a transportation necessity, before meandering mudded ruts were replaced by multilaned asphalt, pioneering motorists took to the [...]
1Dec1997 | Loren Lomasky | 2 comments | Continued-
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