http://la.streetsblog.org/2009/06/24/house-dems-agree-climate-bill-can-help-pay-for-greener-transportation/ Covering Los Angeles's livable streets movement Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://la.streetsblog.org/2009/06/24/house-dems-agree-climate-bill-can-help-pay-for-greener-transportation/comment-page-1/#comment-7401 Justin N Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:30:06 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/?p=2511#comment-7401 Wait... so it's one hundreth of $70bn? That comes out to a whopping $700m, for all 50 states. Assuming allocation based upon population, that means California will get all of $87.5m, or a couple of miles of light rail for the whole state. It seems to me that, since transportation emissions constitute around half (49% acc. to CalPIRG figures) of our greenhouse gas emissions, this plan ought to allocate half of those monies for transportation. Wait… so it’s one hundreth of $70bn? That comes out to a whopping $700m, for all 50 states. Assuming allocation based upon population, that means California will get all of $87.5m, or a couple of miles of light rail for the whole state. It seems to me that, since transportation emissions constitute around half (49% acc. to CalPIRG figures) of our greenhouse gas emissions, this plan ought to allocate half of those monies for transportation.

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