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Can High Gas Prices Reduce Pollution?

High gas prices are helping reduce congestion on the streets of NYC while pushing more people to take advantage of mass transit. The MTA in New York City reports that traffic through bridges and tunnels has dropped 4.7% in June, 2008, compared to June, 2007. It is suspected this decrease is directly related to rising fuel prices.

During the same time, ridership of NYC subways and buses increased by 4.6% between April and June. So, with more ridership on mass transit, the fuel efficiency of these public transportation systems should increase dramatically.

Can we actually benefit from increasing gas prices in metropolitan areas with highly tuned, fuel efficient public transportation systems? In the immediate future it seems we can. With high gas prices forcing people out of their cars and into mass transit, we not only reduce automobile emissions into the air but potentially help force down the price of gas because of reduced demand.

What’s really interesting here is that in metropolitan areas with alternate transportation systems in place, gas prices may peek sooner than other areas, finding a ceiling based on reduced demand created by a true alternative to driving; mass transit.

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  2. I like the concept but unfortunately it is not that simple. A side effect of less people driving is a decline in toll revenue. Toll revenue is used to improve mass transit. So if less people are driving, there will be less revenue to improve mass transit which will having a growing demand. Somethings gotta give.

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