Via Ryan Avent, I just don’t know what to say about this
By requiring car drivers to pay a fee to drive in a city at peak hours, congestion pricing reduces traffic and raises money that can be used to support public transit—both worthy goals.
Yet congestion pricing has dubious environmental value. Traffic jams, if they’re managed well, can actually be good for the environment. They maintain a level of frustration that turns drivers into subway riders or pedestrians.
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Wednesday ~ October 14th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
Fred
A sufficient level of frustration turns people into revolutionaries.
Wednesday ~ October 14th, 2009 at 9:07 pm
happyjuggler0
It is things like this that make me wonder whether or not environmental activists actually care about the environment. Perhaps they just want to cause pain for capitalism, or are Luddites.
Thursday ~ October 22nd, 2009 at 9:13 am
Levi
Sounds like how surgeons used to object to hypnosis as a pain reliever: “if the account of the man experiencing no agony during the operation were true, the fact was unworthy of their consideration because pain is a wise provision of nature, and patients ought to suffer pain while their surgeon is operating.” (source).