What’s the price of gasoline? In the U.S. it’s about $4 a gallon. But some experts say the true price of gas is much higher. What about the costs of pollution, and the global and local problems caused by it? Who pays for those? This animated feature from the Center for Investigative Reporting calculates the carbon footprint and other “external costs” of gasoline use in the U.S. 

Reported by Sarah Terry-Cobo
Produced by Carrie Ching and Sarah Terry-Cobo
Sound mix and editing by Carrie Ching
Animation and illustration by Arthur Jones

How much would you be willing to pay for gas? Share your thoughts with California Watch and CIR:
http://www.publicinsightnetwork.org/form/center-for-investigative-reporting/a…

Read more: http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/us-gas-artificially-cheap-what-we-dont…

Sources: http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/204228-price-of-gas-transcript.html