- 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)
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