{"id":210040534,"date":"2011-08-29T00:35:34","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T00:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=210040534"},"modified":"2011-08-29T00:35:34","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T00:35:34","slug":"whats-better-for-the-environment-raising-the-gas-tax-or-fuel-efficiency-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=210040534","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s Better for the Environment: Raising the Gas Tax or Fuel-Efficiency Standards?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt from Infrastructurist. by Eric Jaffe<br \/>\nMorris makes some strong points here \u2014 without even mentioning the fact that a gas tax increase, unlike higher fuel-economy standards, will also generate revenue for the Highway Trust Fund. (If anything, raising CAFE will hurt gas tax revenues, since fuel-efficient cars don\u2019t have to be filled up as often.) The gas tax is also better for congestion, and consequently the accident rate, and we still get the benefit of a cleaner fleet over time, because high gas costs will create a demand for fuel-efficient cars.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.infrastructurist.com\/2011\/08\/25\/whats-better-for-the-environment-raising-the-gas-tax-or-fuel-efficiency-standards\/\">https:\/\/www.infrastructurist.com\/2011\/08\/25\/whats-better-for-the-environment-raising-the-gas-tax-or-fuel-efficiency-standards\/<\/a>oldId.20110829003534684<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt from Infrastructurist. by Eric Jaffe Morris makes some strong points here \u2014 without even mentioning the fact that a gas tax increase, unlike higher fuel-economy standards, will also generate revenue for the Highway Trust Fund. (If anything, raising CAFE will hurt gas tax revenues, since fuel-efficient cars don\u2019t have to be filled up as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=210040534\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What\u2019s Better for the Environment: Raising the Gas Tax or Fuel-Efficiency Standards?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210040534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210040534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210040534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210040534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210040534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210040534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210040534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}