Posted by David Kopel: How to spend the Obama trillion: 100k per car to retrofit hybrids http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2008_12_14-2008_12_20.shtml#1229731693
My Independence Institute colleague Todd Shepherd (formerly a reporter for KOA radio) runs the [1]Complete Colorado website. It's laid out like the Drudge Report, and it presents Colorado news--including original reporting by Todd. He's just published an article on the 2.25 billion dollars in eco-pork that ten Colorado municipalities are seeking as part of the impending "stimulus" package. Among the requests from the city of Boulder is six million dollars in order to convert 60 cars (in the city, county, and University of Colorado fleets) from ordinary hybrids to plug-in hybrids. That's a hundred thousand dollars per car. Even in eco-conscious Boulder, it is very, very unlikely that voters would approve spending their own tax money on such an ineffecient spending project. References 1. http://www.completecolorado.com/ _______________________________________________ Volokh mailing list [email protected] http://lists.powerblogs.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volokh
