Product Description
January 2012. 40 pages. By Elly Blue.
This title is also available in a digital edition for the Kindle and in EPUB format
A full length book on this topic will be released by Cantankerous Titles in 2014.
Wholesale discount automatically applied to orders of 7 copies or more.
Excerpts from Bikenomics
In this country we have a growing chorus of voices, from public health professionals to politicians to the First Lady, urging people to exercise more. But I know, because I grew up in suburbia, that people don’t eat unhealthy food and sit on the couch all day out of laziness.
As many as 60 percent of Americans say they would like to ride a bike more often, and most of us already have bikes stashed in the basement or garage. Of course, we want better options. And bicycle transportation is one of the most affordable and accessible, from an individual and civic perspective. At least, it has the potential to be.
Close to half of U.S. oil use today is in the form of gasoline. Most of this gasoline goes directly towards fueling automobiles. That’s 377 million gallons every single day – a bit more that a gallon per U.S. resident. That’s more than the daily amount of water most of us drink.
“Bikes don’t pay for the roads.” That’s frequently stated on editorial pages, blog comments, and shouted from car windows. It also happens to be false. When you ride a bicycle instead of driving a car or using transit, you are subsidizing other road users to the tune of, on average, about $3,000 a year.
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brian palmer, the washing machine post – :
“the solidity of reasoning and comprehensive detail within those forty pages provides an ever-increasing body of ammunition for those of us prone to occasional bouts of lunchtime confrontation with the devil. … everybody should order a copy of ‘bikeonomics’ as immediately as possible.”
Xerography Debt #30 – :
“A realistic, smart consideration of a fascinating topic. The zine is absolutely worth reading (even if you don’t ride; maybe especially if you don’t yet ride!).”
Anika Ledlow – :
“This pocket-sized introduction to biking as economic salvation is one of our best-selling titles. Elly Blue outlines the real cost of a car-central transit system including road maintenance, building parking spaces, the wear on public health and more.
When I first read Elly’s TTL series, this was the book that captured my attention. Elly communicates the ins and outs of bike economics in a straightforward and eloquent voice. I found myself saying ‘I didn’t know that!’ over and over again.”