--- title: Five Best Ideas: Stop Subsidizing Driving description: Stop subsidizing driving, if you care about food care about immigration policy and more. canonical: https://time.com/4676857/stop-subsidizing-driving/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-21T17:00:58.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:03.115Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Stop Subsidizing Driving og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4676857/stop-subsidizing-driving/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Stop Subsidizing Driving twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Stop Subsidizing Driving by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 21, 2017 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 21, 2017 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**We don’t need to demonize driving — but we should stop subsidizing it.**](http://cityobservatory.org/lets-not-demonize-driving/) By Joe Cortright in _City Observatory_ **2\.** [**If you care about food, you need to care about immigration policy.**](http://www.eater.com/2017/2/17/14649202/trump-immigration-policy-food) By Helen Rosner in _Eater_ **3\.** [**Want to learn what marketers find out from your Facebook usage? Here’s how.**](https://thenextweb.com/facebook/2017/02/17/facebook-chrome-track-data-selfie/) By Mix at the _Next Web_ **4\.** [**This teaching method is proving there’s no such thing as being ‘bad at math.’**](https://qz.com/901125/a-mathematician-has-created-a-method-of-teaching-that-is-proving-there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-bad-math-student/) By Jenny Anderson in _Quartz_ **5\.** [**Here’s how to close the tech gender gap in a decade: Take it to the states.**](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/02/17/how-we-could-close-techs-gender-gap-in-a-decade/?tid=sm%5Ftw&%3Butm%5Fterm=.3fc8cdd5df61) By Hayley Tsukayama in the _Washington Post_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4676857/stop-subsidizing-driving/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4676857/stop-subsidizing-driving/"},"headline":"Stop Subsidizing Driving","datePublished":"2017-02-21T17:00:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:03.115Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4676857/stop-subsidizing-driving/","keywords":["Innovation","Education","Technology","facebook","Immigration","driving","Five Best Ideas"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4676857/stop-subsidizing-driving/","name":"Stop Subsidizing Driving"}}]}] ```