Back in March, I wrote about economists Matthew Kahn and Ed Glaeser's work comparing carbon emissions among metropolitan areas.
Among other things, they estimated how carbon emissions from driving vary across metropolitan areas.
The variation in gasoline use is just as interesting, though. Kahn and Glaeser did not explicitly calculate this, but I did the simple arithmetic to convert their estimates of carbon emissions to estimates of gasoline use.
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