carbon emissions

Bag fees

AustinContrarian  Wed, 09/16/2009 - 3:02pm

I hate airlines' practice of charging to check bags even though I rarely check bags.  But I understand the economics.

 Strangely, Matthew Yglesias does not:



 

Bag fees

AustinContrarian  Wed, 09/16/2009 - 3:02pm

I hate airlines' practice of charging to check bags even though I rarely check bags.  But I understand the economics.

 Strangely, Matthew Yglesias does not:



 

Downtown apartment owners should try this experiment

AustinContrarian  Thu, 03/26/2009 - 3:30pm

From City Beat:

Daimler will partner with the City of Austin to operate a car-share pilot program, Mayor Will Wynn announced this morning.



 

Downtown apartment owners should try this experiment

AustinContrarian  Thu, 03/26/2009 - 3:30pm

From City Beat:

Daimler will partner with the City of Austin to operate a car-share pilot program, Mayor Will Wynn announced this morning.



 

Suburb-city differences in gasoline consumption.

AustinContrarian  Thu, 11/13/2008 - 2:27am

Last in this series . . . 

Kahn and Glaeser also estimated the difference in carbon emissions between cities and suburbs for 48 MSAs.

 I've again converted that to gallons of gasoline.  (See the last post for their methodology and caveats.)

Nashville, surprisingly, tops the list:



 

How gasoline use varies among metropolitan areas

AustinContrarian  Wed, 11/12/2008 - 11:40am

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.

 



 

The geography of gasoline consumption

AustinContrarian  Wed, 03/19/2008 - 9:29pm

I've done some more thinking about the Glaser and Kahn paper I bogged about the other day.  Glaser and Kahn examine total energy use among major metropolitan areas in order to compare cities carbon emissions.  But their data also allow us to compare gasoline use city by city.  That's just as interesting a



 

The geography of gasoline consumption

AustinContrarian  Wed, 03/19/2008 - 9:29pm

I've done some more thinking about the Glaser and Khan paper I bogged about the other day.  Glaser and Khan examine total energy use among major metropolitan areas in order to compare cities carbon emissions.  But their data also allow us to compare gasoline use city by city.  That's just as interesting a



 

The geography of carbon dioxide emissions

AustinContrarian  Mon, 03/10/2008 - 12:04pm

Economists Ed Glaeser and Matthew Kahn have written a new paper estimating the differences in carbon emissions across different metropolitan areas.