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Boehner Considering Ending Tax Breaks for Oil Companies (The Hill) State Proposals to Tax Electric Vehicles Send Mixed Signals About Govt Support for Fuel Economy (AP) If You Can Look Past the Ode to Gov. Christie, Fox News Has a Point Here About Life Cycle Budgeting Checking In With America’s New Angry Governors (NYT) The … Continued

By Tanya Snyder

8:32 AM EDT on April 26, 2011

Boehner Considering Ending Tax Breaks for Oil Companies (The Hill)
State Proposals to Tax Electric Vehicles Send Mixed Signals About Govt Support for Fuel Economy (AP)
If You Can Look Past the Ode to Gov. Christie, Fox News Has a Point Here About Life Cycle Budgeting
Checking In With America’s New Angry Governors (NYT)
The Underlying Assumptions That Propped Up Sprawl Have Been Debunked. What’s Next? (The Atlantic)
One Analyst Says Gas Prices Are Peaking, Everybody Else Says Peak Oil Will Keep Them High (The Hill)
If You Want Transit to Thrive, Stop Restricting Density (and Height!) Near Stations (Yglesias)
Austin’s Inner Neighborhoods Are Losing Children, Schools Could Close (American-Statesman)
We Can’t Afford the Sprawl or the Wars That Car Dependency Gave Us (Grist)
Gentrification and Cupcake Guilt (Rustwire)

Tanya Snyder

Tanya became Streetsblog's Capitol Hill editor in September 2010 after covering Congress for Pacifica Radios Washington bureau and for public radio stations around the country. She lives car-free in a transit-oriented and bike-friendly neighborhood of Washington, DC.

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