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Common Sense versus Climate Hysteria
Whether it’s fires in California or Brazil, hurricanes like Dorian or your summer hot spell, it’s not just weather anymore but a sign of the impending apocalypse.This specter of imminent demise tied to...
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Cars, Not Trains or Planes Dominate Northeast Corridor Travel
For years, Amtrak has been publicizing its large market share compared with planes in the Northeast Corridor, which covers the major metropolitan air markets of Washington to Baltimore, Philadelphia,...
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Screwy Transit Logic
Bus ridership in Los Angeles is plummeting, says the Wall Street Journal, but LA Metro CEO Phil Washington thinks he has the solution.“It’s too easy to drive in this city,” says Washington. To get...
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Green Technology's Dark Side
The hype these days is to stop using those dirty fossil fuel driven cars and trucks and convert everyone to those clean electric vehicles. But wait!Before you jump onto the EV train, those EV’s have a...
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American Renewal: The Real Conflict Is Not Racial or Sexual, It's Between The...
Despite the media’s obsession on gender, race and sexual orientation, the real and determining divide in America and other advanced countries lies in the growing conflict between the ascendant upper...
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If You Improve It, They Will Come
My latest piece is now online at City Journal. It’s a recap of the Indianapolis BRT and Columbus free downtown transit success, as well as a look at Kansas City’s contemplation of free transit...
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Transit Planners Want to Make Your Life Worse
In our system of government, the public sector is, well, supposed to serve the public. But increasingly the bureaucracies at the state and local level increasingly seek to tell the public how to live,...
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The Aging Car and Better Served Consumers
Americans are keeping their cars a lot longer than before --- an awful lot longer. The first Nationwide Transportation Survey, in 1977, indicated that the average age of household vehicles was 6.4...
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On the Houston Chronicle's Editorial Crusade Against Fossil Fuels
“A recent Politico article on the bad messaging of Democrats on climate and energy, Democrats Bite on Burgers and Straws–and Republicans Feast, is fair warning. It is high time the hometown paper of...
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Renewables May Make Us Feel Good, But Realistically They Just Don't Work
The “green magic transition” may be the greatest con job in history.Despite the hype over the ever-increasing connected capacity at wind and solar farms worldwide, none, yes, let me repeat that, none...
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Transport Costs & Subsidies by Mode
Supporters of increased subsidies to urban transit and intercity passenger trains often argue that all transportation is subsidized, so it’s only fair that transit and Amtrak should also be subsidized....
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Silicon Valley's Useful Idiots
Tech elites paid for the rope that may hang them.The term “useful idiot,” often credited to Vladimir Lenin, applies to people supporting a cause or movement injurious to their own self-interest....
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Property and Democracy in America
To understand how American democracy has worked, and why its future may be limited, it’s critical to look at the issue of property. From early on, the country’s republican institutions have rested on...
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Average Chinese Car Travels as Much as American Car
China is now the largest automobile market in the world. In 2018, 23.7 million new light vehicles were sold in China, compared to the 17.3 million sold in the United States. During the Great...
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Moving Into Your Socialist Home
“Housing is a human right,” asserts Oregon’s U.S. Representative Earl Blumenauer in a paper titled Locked Out: Reversing Federal Housing Failures and Unlocking Opportunity.” That’s debatable, but if...
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New York City Firefighters Union Calls Out Vision Zero, Bike Lanes, and Road...
New York City firefighters union calls out Vision Zero, bike lanes, and road diets: “You’re basically eliminating the ability for emergency service vehicles to get around”Will firefighters unions in...
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The EV Free Lunch Is Coming To An End
For years the EV’s owners have benefitted from Federal subsidies (financed by the working class) and have been exempt from the fuel taxes that pay for road and bridge maintenance as they use no “fuel”...
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The News Media's Blind Spots Covering the Working Class
At midnight on Sept. 15, 49,000 UAW-GM workers walked out on strike at locations across the country, a day after their 2015 collective bargaining contract with General Motors expired and the union...
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So Much for Localism
In the months that followed President Trump’s election, many thoughtful Democrats and progressives re-discovered the beauties of federalism.After all, with a brute in the White House, maybe the best...
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The 5th Largest Economy In The World Delegates Its Environmental Stewardship...
California prides its image as the green leader in America. However, California’s love of importing electricity and oil exposes the states’ irreverent passion to go green at any cost, and delegates the...
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