{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-blog-post-js","path":"/blog/this-little-noticed-infrastructure-investment-and-jobs-act-provision-could-revolutionize-car-travel-the-new-york-times/","result":{"data":{"site":{"siteMetadata":{"title":"No Frills News"}},"contentfulNfnPost":{"postTitle":"This Little-Noticed Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Provision Could Revolutionize Car Travel - The New York Times","slug":"this-little-noticed-infrastructure-investment-and-jobs-act-provision-could-revolutionize-car-travel-the-new-york-times","createdLocal":"2023-07-06 14:30:51.614928","publishDate":"2023-07-06 00:00:00","feedName":"Autonomous Vehicle News","sourceUrl":{"sourceUrl":"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/opinion/infrastructure-investment-jobs-act-climate-change-electric-vehicle.html"},"postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"<p>The country’s road system receives much of its funding through a tax on gasoline, and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the Inflation Reduction Act have allocated billions of dollars of additional federal spending to improve our highways and to subsidize the purchase of electric vehicles.\nNewer roads should reduce stop-and-go traffic, which increases emissions, and electric vehicles will eventually slash motor vehicle gasoline emissions.\nBut in reality, building smoother and wider roads often incentivizes more, not less, driving.\nAnd of course, more driving means more pollution, more accidents, more congestion and more pavement damage.\nAt the same time, the gas tax revenues providing highway funding will dwindle because of electric vehicle adoption.</p>"}}}},"pageContext":{"slug":"this-little-noticed-infrastructure-investment-and-jobs-act-provision-could-revolutionize-car-travel-the-new-york-times"}}}