In message , Jeff York
writes

All the other "environmental costs" that are used in
order to "demonstrate" that road transport is subsidised are (a)
pulled out of someone's arse and (b) not balanced by the benefit side
of the cost/benefit equation.

"The cost of everything and the value of nothing".

In any case, 80% of people who work for a living get there by powered
road transport, 71% of them by car, van or minibus. The people who don't
work for a living, by and large, are not subsidising anybody.


http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/statistics...s/tsgb/2006edi
tion/sectiononemodalcomparisons

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Steve Walker