Posted Thu, Dec 10, 1:59 a.m.

First off, how did you find Mr. Holtzman? His website has nothing more recent than 2007, and the "daily blog" pointed to from there has nothing more recent than 2008. Did you go to school with him, or something? As to the larger point: "Anything you do in public can ...

Posted Mon, Feb 2, 10:16 p.m.

"talking down one preference and up another just described your point of view, and not much else." Really? And what is my preference? Please give a quote showing the same. I was talking about market preferences, expressed in price per square foot. Here are the thumbnails for Zillow's heat maps ...

Posted Mon, Feb 2, 6:20 p.m.

dbreneman: "Rational people every day decide to endure long commutes in automobiles because it maximizes their utility in ways that central planners never consider." Oh, if only it were so. See, the thing about a free market -- or even a market subsidized by great big whomping tax write-off, like ...

Posted Mon, Feb 2, 5:47 p.m.

"Cars don't have to run on gasoline..." True enough. What did you have in mind? At what price point? And using how much fossil fuels to produce what one does use (the main problem with tar sands, ethanol, fuel cells, etc)?

Posted Mon, Feb 2, 4:46 p.m.

Where's the oil going to come from to gas the cars that will be allegedly using the highways in the future? Please name the new oil fields discovered recently (lets say within the past ten years) that aren't already declining. City Light gets 98% of its power from renewable (and ...