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July 2, 2008
The Upside of $4 Gasoline
Time.com has positively deviated from the typical "gas prices are awful, aren't they?" approach most journalists take when writing about the fuel situation. Instead of adding to the incessant yammering about how life is going down the crapper because of $4 gas, they decide to highlight 10 positives that might come about because of it:
- Globalized jobs return home
- Sprawl stalls
- 4-day work weeks
- Less pollution
- More frugal use of transportation
- Fewer traffic deaths
- Cheaper car insurance
- Less traffic
- More cops out of their cars
- Less obesity
Now, I'm not confident all these will happen just because of high gas prices, but you have to give them a nod for at least trying to remind us that some good will likely come out of this.
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