{"id":3249,"date":"2008-06-15T20:22:45","date_gmt":"2008-06-16T00:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/2008\/06\/15\/best-american-cities-to-cope-with-an-oil-crisis\/"},"modified":"2008-06-16T11:54:45","modified_gmt":"2008-06-16T15:54:45","slug":"best-american-cities-to-cope-with-an-oil-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/06\/15\/best-american-cities-to-cope-with-an-oil-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Best American cities to cope with an oil crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The American mainstream media can’t get enough news stories out of the rising cost of oil. The topic has three great storylines to highlight: the personal struggle of average families trying to make ends meet, a downturn in the economy, and political plans by presidential candidates on how to deal with rising costs at the gas pump.<\/p>\n

But one of the other emerging storylines is an examination of how Americans travel and whether their cities or towns will be able to cope with new forms of mobility. A study published by the economic development group Common Current<\/a> recently ranked 50 American cities that are best\/least able to weather an oil crisis. It shouldn’t surprise our readers that the cities with high density and a sophisticated transit system came out on top. (In addition to mass transit, the survey weighed factors like telecommuting and whether people ride a bike or walk to work; lesser factors included urban sprawl, the use of heating oil, and the carpool rat<\/strike> rate.<\/em>)<\/p>\n

1. San Francisco
\n2. New York
\n3. Chicago
\n4. Wahsington DC
\n5. Seattle
\n6. Portland
\n7. Boston
\n8. Oakland
\n9. Philadelphia
\n10. Denver<\/p>\n

Probably more interesting is finding which cities are in poor shape to weather an oil crisis:<\/p>\n

50. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
\n49. Tulsa, Oklahoma
\n48. Louisville, Kentucky
\n47. Memphis, Tennessee
\n46. Indianapolis
\n45. Jacksonville, Florida
\n44. Arlington, Texas
\n43. Nashville, Tennessee
\n42. Forth Worth, Texas
\n41. Virginia Beach, Virginia
\nOklahoma City has the third largest land mass of any city in the US, which is astonishing for a city of 537,734 people. This CCN-Money article<\/a>, where I first heard about the survey, highlights the reasons why one Oklahoma City resident is making the change from driving to carpooling.<\/p>\n

Political cartoon by Ed Stein<\/a>, Rocky Mountain News <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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