Citing the Gipper in [climate change fraud promotion] - NYTimes.com

[George P. Shultz, who was Ronald Reagan’s secretary of state] “Those who wish to repeal our state’s clean energy laws through postponement to some fictitious future are running up the white flag of surrender to a polluted environment,” he wrote. “We do not need this defeatist initiative with its sense of pessimism and its can’t-do attitude. We need Ronald Reagan’s spirit of determination laced with optimism.”

Green Buses Driving Costs Higher [Michigan Capitol Confidential]

In Flint, the city's transit authority bought a pair of $1.1 million electric buses that are zero-emission.
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The "eco" buses can cost anywhere from 50 to 100 percent more than a regular diesel bus, and that doesn't include the infrastructure costs that tag along. For example, Flint's Mass Transportation Authority's web site states it has plans to spend $10 million converting 50 diesel buses to hybrid technology, at a cost of $200,000 per bus. Flint transit also wants to spend $5.2 million to modify its facilities for compressed natural gas fuel.

"This is dreadful public policy," said Wendell Cox, principal of Demographia, a public policy consulting firm in St. Louis, Mo. "On one hand, we ought to do everything we can for the environment. We need to attach a cost to that. In general, transit agencies don't do that. And neither does government."

Randal O'Toole, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, studied hybrid buses in Minneapolis. He found that the cost to reduce carbon dioxide for the Minneapolis hybrid bus was $1,000 per metric ton. O'Toole said the going rate in the marketplace is $10 per metric ton.
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So why are transit authorites gobbling up hybrid buses?
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O'Toole said it is part of a public relations campaign by transit agencies to endear themselves to taxpayers, who fund 75 percent of their budgets.

Paul A. Eisenstein: Pros and cons of eco-car Leaf - Dedham, Massachusetts - The Dedham Transcript

On a cold winter day with the electric heater on full, range may be cut to barely 70 miles.