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Substitution Effects and the High Price of Petrol
The price of gasoline in England is roughly twice what it is in North America. As a result, people drive smaller cars and drive less. Many people have chosen to take the train and ride bicycles, as is obvious in this photograph taken at the bicycle parking area of the Oxford train station:

Category: Economics, Energy, Photographs Posted on Wednesday, July 4, 2007 at 1:06am
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Andrew (mail) (www):
Oxford is an extreme case - its streets are so narrow and parking space is so limited that driving around the town is a particularly bad idea (it has a "park and ride" system where you park your car in a big car park at the edge of town and take a bus in - the only such system that I've ever found useful).

It was one of the country's major towns in the medieval period, and has not been redeveloped as much as London (no Great Fire, for one thing).
7.4.2007 7:01am
Ronnie (mail):
sounds like good exercise.... a positive externality?
7.4.2007 7:50pm
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