If Colorado Imposes Cap-and-trade, Kiss Cheap Gas Goodbye
In 2008, President Obama said that, “Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.” That’s exactly what’s happened in California to energy costs broadly. The Washington Post recently ran an op-ed by Dominic Pino arguing that California’s cap-and-trade program is responsible for the state’s high and volatile gas prices. […]
DC Metro Continues to Decline
It’s a sign of distinction that the Washington Metro Rail system has not one but at least two blogs dedicated to documenting the system’s poor operating condition. One of the blogs reports that, in July, MetroRail suffered from nearly 500 problems that led to a “deviation from normal scheduled service,” all but about 20 of […]
The Problem with Transit
Table 12 of the historical tables supplementing the 2010 Public Transit Fact Book reveals that, since 1970, the number of workers needed to operate America’s public transit systems has increased by 180 percent. Table 38 reveals that, in the same time period, the cost of operating buses, trolley buses, light rail, and heavy rail (the […]
