Even at Today’s High Gas Prices, Driving Is Extremely Cheap

The price that matters is how long you have to work to drive your car 100 miles

Ed Dolan
Marker
Published in
3 min readDec 6, 2021

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“Gas prices are the highest they’ve ever been!” screamed a recent headline in the Los Angeles Times. “Pain at the pump drives Biden’s suffering in the polls!” trumpeted Politico. Really? About time to remind folks that by historical…

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Ed Dolan
Marker

Economist, Senior Fellow at Niskanen Center, Yale Ph.D. Interests include environment, health care policy, social safety net, economic freedom.