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The impossible paradox of car ownership. "Cars are harmful to the environment, expensive, and loaded with negative externalities. But the individual benefits to low-income people are too great to ignore." https://www.vox.com/23753949/cars-cost-ownership-economy-repossession

Car ownership is expensive but necessary for most Americans

For many working-class Americans, cars are a burden and a necessity.
Marin Cogan (Vox)
in reply to kottke.org

Dr. Juande Santander-Vela
Dr. Juande Santander-Vela
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in some sense, car ownership is a tax on those people due to the killing of public infrastructure.
in reply to kottke.org

Owen
Owen
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car ownership is already *heavily* subsidized. Yet still out of reach for many people, as the author illustrates. The author also doesn't acknowledge that many people will never own and drive a private vehicle, even if it were free.

Given all this, maybe more subsidies for driving isn't the solution?

"The share of this cost [car ownership] is born by society is 41%"

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800921003943?via%3Dihub

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