Web Letters: Green Politicians, Real and Fake

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By Nicholas von Hoffman

February 28, 2007

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  • Some good points, but some weird numbers.

    "clogged metropolitan areas wasted 3.7 billion hours and 2.3 billion gallons of gasoline--about $63 billion worth--stuck in traffic."

    I hope that $63 billion is including wasted time, otherwise the amount you are talking about equals $27 per gallon.

    Josh Kroll

    Minneapolis, MN

    03/01/2007 @ 11:23am


  • I'm not sure of von hoffman's drift. Has Al Gore actually been taking the bus? I seem to recall that he failed even to mention global warming during the entire 2000 presidential contest. And why give him even a share of the credit that duly belongs to Ken Livingstone?

    Bob Cohen

    Coos Bay, OR

    02/28/2007 @ 4:16pm


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