115. The Downside of More Miles Per Gallon

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🗓️ 20 February 2013

⏱️ 6 minutes

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The gas tax doesn't work well, and it's only going to get worse. What's next?

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0:00.0	From APM, American Public Media, and WNYC.
0:07.0	This is Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace.
0:11.0	Here's the host of Marketplace, Kyra's Doll.
0:16.0	Time now for a little bit of Freakonomics Radio that moment in the broadcast every couple of weeks
0:20.0	where we talk to Stephen Nubner, the co-author of the books and the blog of the same name.
0:24.0	It is the hidden side of everything.
0:26.0	How have you been, man?
0:30.0	Great, Ky. Thank you.
0:32.0	I've been thinking about you. You drive a lot out there in California, right?
0:35.0	It's LA. Baby, of course we do.
0:38.0	What do you pay for gas these days?
0:40.0	A lot. It's like it's over four bucks a gallon.
0:43.0	People generally don't like that.
0:45.0	Even though relatively we pay pretty cheap gas.
0:48.0	The good news, however, is MPG, miles per gallon.
0:51.0	We are now at a point where we get more miles per gallon of gas
0:55.0	to the US Carthly.
0:57.0	That number because of federal regulations is going to go up quite a bit in coming years.
1:02.0	Great news, right?
1:03.0	Great. Yes. Now what?
1:05.0	With you, it's always good news, bad news, dude. What do you got?
1:08.0	Well, let's go a little deeper.
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