All Posts Tagged With: "automobility"
Are Highways Subsidized?
I have always loved trains. I am an ardent cyclist, and I never particularly liked automobiles. So I always took it for granted that the reason most Americans drive and passenger trains have nearly disappeared is that our highways are unfairly subsidized. I felt particularly incensed that the Interstate Highway System, which took business from [...]
1Nov2006 | Randal OToole | 8 comments | ContinuedThe Scapegoat Utility Vehicle
Sam Kazman is general counsel of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (www.cei.org), a Washington-based free-market advocacy organization. First sin, then treason, and finally, reckless idiocy. For owners of sports utility vehicles (SUVs), that pretty much sums up the last holiday season. They went into Thanksgiving under fire from the “What Would Jesus Drive?” campaign. Then the [...]
1Jul2003 | Sam Kazman | 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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