Eventually, of course, we'll have to move entirely off a gasoline-based infrastructure, but in the interim there are valid uses of personal automobiles in rural areas (whereas I am having an increasingly hard time seeing the valid uses for personal automobiles at all in areas where three-story and taller buildings predominate).

You need some form of road-pricing in the urban areas. Congestion charges á la London and Stockholm are one way. Parking fees are another (used in Copenhagen). Simply restricting the available parking space is a third (used in Paris).

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.