http://gas2.org/2010/01/25/public-transportation-will-make-more-jobs-study-says/ What is the future of fuel? What's new? What's next? Since 2007, Gas 2 has covered a rapidly changing world coming to terms with its oil addiction. Sat, 26 May 2012 14:59:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://gas2.org/2010/01/25/public-transportation-will-make-more-jobs-study-says/#comment-13581 Martin K Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:12:20 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=4559#comment-13581 We can replace every bus with a new efficient hybrid model, we can add light rail or maglev trains, we can create charging stations for plug-in electric vehicles, but what if we do all of this and nobody uses them? Okay, maybe they will get used eventually, but then extra subsidies would be needed to maintain these things because the revenue just wasn't there. The point is, even when you crunch the numbers and see that one project shows a better value than another project, that doesn't mean that there wasn't an even better project out there that won't happen because the government thought it could spend the money better. We can replace every bus with a new efficient hybrid model, we can add light rail or maglev trains, we can create charging stations for plug-in electric vehicles, but what if we do all of this and nobody uses them? Okay, maybe they will get used eventually, but then extra subsidies would be needed to maintain these things because the revenue just wasn’t there. The point is, even when you crunch the numbers and see that one project shows a better value than another project, that doesn’t mean that there wasn’t an even better project out there that won’t happen because the government thought it could spend the money better.

]]> http://gas2.org/2010/01/25/public-transportation-will-make-more-jobs-study-says/#comment-37406 Martin K Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:12:00 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=4559#comment-37406 We can replace every bus with a new efficient hybrid model, we can add light rail or maglev trains, we can create charging stations for plug-in electric vehicles, but what if we do all of this and nobody uses them? Okay, maybe they will get used eventually, but then extra subsidies would be needed to maintain these things because the revenue just wasn't there. The point is, even when you crunch the numbers and see that one project shows a better value than another project, that doesn't mean that there wasn't an even better project out there that won't happen because the government thought it could spend the money better. We can replace every bus with a new efficient hybrid model, we can add light rail or maglev trains, we can create charging stations for plug-in electric vehicles, but what if we do all of this and nobody uses them? Okay, maybe they will get used eventually, but then extra subsidies would be needed to maintain these things because the revenue just wasn’t there. The point is, even when you crunch the numbers and see that one project shows a better value than another project, that doesn’t mean that there wasn’t an even better project out there that won’t happen because the government thought it could spend the money better.

]]> http://gas2.org/2010/01/25/public-transportation-will-make-more-jobs-study-says/#comment-37407 Martin K Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:12:00 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=4559#comment-37407 We can replace every bus with a new efficient hybrid model, we can add light rail or maglev trains, we can create charging stations for plug-in electric vehicles, but what if we do all of this and nobody uses them? Okay, maybe they will get used eventually, but then extra subsidies would be needed to maintain these things because the revenue just wasn't there. The point is, even when you crunch the numbers and see that one project shows a better value than another project, that doesn't mean that there wasn't an even better project out there that won't happen because the government thought it could spend the money better. We can replace every bus with a new efficient hybrid model, we can add light rail or maglev trains, we can create charging stations for plug-in electric vehicles, but what if we do all of this and nobody uses them? Okay, maybe they will get used eventually, but then extra subsidies would be needed to maintain these things because the revenue just wasn’t there. The point is, even when you crunch the numbers and see that one project shows a better value than another project, that doesn’t mean that there wasn’t an even better project out there that won’t happen because the government thought it could spend the money better.

]]> http://gas2.org/2010/01/25/public-transportation-will-make-more-jobs-study-says/#comment-37408 Martin K Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:12:00 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=4559#comment-37408 We can replace every bus with a new efficient hybrid model, we can add light rail or maglev trains, we can create charging stations for plug-in electric vehicles, but what if we do all of this and nobody uses them? Okay, maybe they will get used eventually, but then extra subsidies would be needed to maintain these things because the revenue just wasn't there. The point is, even when you crunch the numbers and see that one project shows a better value than another project, that doesn't mean that there wasn't an even better project out there that won't happen because the government thought it could spend the money better. We can replace every bus with a new efficient hybrid model, we can add light rail or maglev trains, we can create charging stations for plug-in electric vehicles, but what if we do all of this and nobody uses them? Okay, maybe they will get used eventually, but then extra subsidies would be needed to maintain these things because the revenue just wasn’t there. The point is, even when you crunch the numbers and see that one project shows a better value than another project, that doesn’t mean that there wasn’t an even better project out there that won’t happen because the government thought it could spend the money better.

]]> http://gas2.org/2010/01/25/public-transportation-will-make-more-jobs-study-says/#comment-13580 Tech Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:11:08 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=4559#comment-13580 If public transportation users increase workers at car manufacturers will start getting laid off. If public transportation users increase workers at car manufacturers will start getting laid off.

]]> http://gas2.org/2010/01/25/public-transportation-will-make-more-jobs-study-says/#comment-37405 Tech Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:11:00 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=4559#comment-37405 If public transportation users increase workers at car manufacturers will start getting laid off. If public transportation users increase workers at car manufacturers will start getting laid off.

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