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Electric Vehicles: Another Government Bet, Another Taxpayer Loss
by Panos Prevedouros I quote below a summary by Robert W. Poole, Jr., Director of Transportation Studies, Reason Foundation that he originally titled What’s Wrong with Electric Cars? ================================================= Several years ago in this...
Sustainable Development is an Oxymoron
by Panos Prevedouros On March 2, 1972, a team of experts from MIT presented a groundbreaking report called The Limits to Growth. Read more in the Smithsonian Magazine. More recently, Australian physicist Graham Turner of CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems shows how actual...What Has Been the Biggest Failure in Transportation in Recent History?
by Panos Prevedouros A well known transportation academic posed this question recently to other transportation experts. Failure he said. You decide the criteria. Failures could be big small, but not too small and localized. I am looking for projects, systems,...HART’s Job Estimates Are Wrong
by Panos Prevedouros Back in 2009, UHERO provided some rail jobs estimates that said employment will start with 300 jobs, and at the peak of construction, there may be 2,000 jobs, but at that time UHERO did not know that a $1.4 billion contract to build the rail cars...Hawaii Jobs: Outlook for Jobs in Education, Government, Military and Tourism
by Panos Prevedouros There are basically four main industries in Hawaii: Education, Government, Military and Tourism. And a fifth large one serving these four is Services. In round numbers, education (DOE, UH system and private) employed 63,000 people in 2010,...Honolulu Rail: Designed to Fail
by Panos Prevedouros Randal O’Toole, economist and author of several books on transportation and urban planning was in Honolulu last week where he spoke on two distinguished panels in Kapolei and in Honolulu. He summarized his opinion about Honolulu’s rail...Jobs: Fundamental Trends – 2000 to 2050. How Did We Get Here and What’s in Store?
by Panos Prevedouros There are three fundamental trends at play in this half century: Aging of both population and infrastructure; Advanced economies cannot absorb unskilled and low skilled laborers; and, Too many crises in one decade took our eye off the ball. The...Economy Survey — The Economist and Hawaii Results
by Panos Prevedouros I like people, global and local issues, and numbers … so I present a mini-series of surveys on major issues which have been debated at The Economist. Obviously the results only represent people with at least a basic level of computer and...Jobs. Jobs. Jobs.
Seth Godin, marketing guru, ex-VP at Yahoo! and author of 13 books, believes that “the current recession is a forever recession” because the industrial age has ended and this means that the days when people were able to get above average pay for average work are over....