Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Car Culture

“Ad-Nauseum”: Audi Takes Greenwashing to the Next Level

By Damien Newton | Feb 9, 2010 | 21 Comments

Picture a future where a smiling multi-racial police force, who apparently answers to nobody, moves unchecked through society arresting and detaining people for offenses to the environment. Use plastic bags at the grocers? You’re arrested, frisked, and handcuffed before being frog marched from the store. Set your hot tub at too high a temperature? You’re […]

We’re Number 1…In Auto Congestion

By Damien Newton | Jan 20, 2010 | 7 Comments

Photo provided by: da90027/Flickr News website The Daily Beast crunches the numbers from the most congested areas in America and finds, to nobody’s surprise, that the worst driving commute in America is right here in Los Angeles. The Hollywood Freeway ranks as the worst place to commute in the entire country based on rush hour […]

EPA Air Chief: We Need to Do More to Reduce VMT

By Elana Schor | Jan 15, 2010 | 2 Comments

Obama administration officials “need to align together” to work on reducing the nation’s total vehicle miles traveled — work that should go beyond a pending congressional climate bill — the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) air-quality chief said today. Gina McCarthy, EPA’s top air pollution regulator. (Photo: CECE) Gina McCarthy, EPA’s assistant administrator for air and […]

The Big Trouble with “Miles Per Gallon”

By Elana Schor | Jan 14, 2010 | 11 Comments

(Photo: snoweyes via Flickr) Can you answer this riddle? A town maintains a fleet of vehicles for town employee use. It has two types of vehicles. Type A gets 15 miles per gallon. Type B gets 30 miles per gallon. The town has 100 Type A vehicles and 100 Type B vehicles. Each car in […]

Report: The American Car Fleet Is Shrinking

By Elana Schor | Jan 7, 2010 | 4 Comments

Could the nation be turning away from its decades-old yen for auto ownership? Americans got rid of more cars than they purchased in 2009, reversing a trend that saw total U.S. vehicles exceed the number of drivers more than 35 years ago, according to a report released today by the Earth Policy Institute (EPI). (Chart: […]

Car Culture Entitlement Runs Rampant In Film Industry Rag

By Damien Newton | Dec 16, 2009 | 10 Comments

Still gets free parking. Photo: Hiding in the Lignt/Flickr I don’t write too often about the film industry or celebrity business here because the lives of L.A.’s celebrities seems to be in a different universe than the one most Angelenos live in. When there’s something exciting or different going on, such as the "Rebel Without […]

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