"Why Electric Cars Have Stalled"

"Why Electric Cars Have Stalled"
The New Yorker | October 2013

Last week, a significant milestone came and went with surprisingly little fanfare: the fortieth anniversary of the day, in 1973, that the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries placed an embargo on oil exports to the United States. The embargo was in response to assistance the U.S. gave Israel during the Yom Kippur War, but its effects have lasted much longer than that three-week event. In showing us that our access to oil can’t be taken for granted, it fundamentally altered our relationship with fossil fuels.
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"The Shutdown's Ripple Effects in Rural America"

"The Shutdown's Ripple Effects in Rural America"
The New Yorker | October 2013

In 2003, the nonprofit organization Housing Vermont began renovating a deteriorating apartment building in the depressed manufacturing town of Springfield. The total mortgage on the newly refurbished, thirteen-unit property was thirteen thousand dollars per month, and the renters could cover only three thousand dollars of that. Rental-assistance payments from a U.S.D.A. program covered the rest.
It worked out fine until July, when Housing Vermont got a letter from the U.S.D.A.’s Rural Development office, warning that its rental-assistance program would run out of money starting in September.
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