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Defending the automobile

Via Peter Gordon, Randal O'Toole argues individual mobility makes us safer from natural disasters. For a more Marxist point of view, read Michael Parenti's comparison of our performance with that of Cuba. Thanks to www.politicaltheory.info for the latter pointer.

Posted by Tyler Cowen on September 8, 2005 at 08:43 AM in Current Affairs | Permalink

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Comments

The O'Toole article is interesting, but I can't buy its argument that the increasing number of cars is responsible for the declining number of hurricane deaths during the 20th century. Improved weather forecasting and communications were likely important as well. If every resident in 1900 Galveston had a car, how many would have known to evacuate?

Posted by: DK at Sep 8, 2005 9:44:39 AM

An interesting point is that pre-Katrina, most flood deaths in recent decades involved occupants of motor vehicles, who attempted to drive through flooded roads and ended up being swept away.

Posted by: Peter at Sep 8, 2005 10:20:19 AM

Car drivers are not dependent?? I think not... all car drivers depend on the gov't to build and maintain the roads, so they are indeed subsidized.

Posted by: Jack at Sep 8, 2005 12:27:00 PM

Not to mention the govt. role in providing security for oil extraction and transport.

Posted by: DK at Sep 8, 2005 1:28:20 PM

(A) I don't trust figures reported by the Cuban government.

(B) Cuban losses to recent hurricanes may be low due the the fact that previous storms devastated all those who lived in vulnerable areas. So maybe few die in Cuba today because all the vulnerable were killed a decade ago.

(C) I'm told that many Marxists requard Cuba's government as "Red Fascism" - just the overlay of Marxist rhetoric on a genuinely fascistic system (compared to "Black Fascism" ala Mussolini).

Posted by: Jos Bleau at Sep 8, 2005 2:15:26 PM

I wonder if there was a run on gasoline as the storm approached and people bugged out? Cars or no cars, an evacuation of such magnitude in such a short time will always be imperfect. Suppose that the famous yellow school buses were used; who were the drivers, was there enough gas, where would they have gone? Would it have been safe to be on the road during the storm then holed up in a secure building on higer ground (provided enough were available). Definitely fueling such a fleet after the storm would have been problamatic given the destruction of gas stations so far inland.

Posted by: Elam Bend at Sep 8, 2005 2:37:58 PM

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