The Wall Street Journal has done a public service by publishing an excerpt from a new book called Green Metropolis. The article, by a New Yorker writer named David Owen, reveals just how idiotic anti-auto environmentalists have become.
Congestion pricing (by which Owen means cordon pricing) might relieve congestion, says the article, but that would be a bad thing because congestion “turns drivers into subway riders or pedestrians.” Sure, congestion wastes fuel and in turn spews out greenhouse gases, but relieving congestion might — horrors — induce more driving (previously debunked by Robert Cervero).
