environment

American urban design changed radically after World War II. Cars like wide roads. They’re noisy, they’re dirty. But we’re locked...

In 2009, when this site was still called a-clue.com, I rededicated this blog to “the war against oil.”  At the...

The disconnect between how people feel about the U.S. economy, and how the economy is doing, is real. There are...

Car makers are America’s worst industry. This isn’t a pollution story, or an urban design story. Cars don’t scale. This...

We know that cars don’t scale. They won’t allow construction of dense cities. The average car is about 6 feet...

Back when I was a kid, stocks were a pretty illiquid investment. I had to visit a broker. We had...

Nothing deflates like technology. This is true for all technology. It was true for manufacturing technology a century ago. That...

The best prism through which to see current events is something I’ve been writing about here for over 15 years....

America’s economy is by far the biggest in the world. It’s built on incentives favoring oil and gas that have...

I wrote last month about the EV Revolution and there’s a further point I need to make. The car business, as...