— unpredictable thoughts

I’m try­ing to under­stand this. Cabs drive around in cir­cles all day. Round about here, round about there. Why are they run­ning on gaso­line? Why haven’t all cities man­dated hybrid or elec­tric cars for this pur­pose? Or bet­ter yet; recon­sti­tute an old way that was pretty darn smart?

It’s all about dol­lars and cents and mak­ing money in a business.

Taxi Dri­vers Seek Fuel Sur­charge
By Sewell Chan
Com­plain­ing that soar­ing gaso­line prices have made it barely pos­si­ble for them to scrape by, about 17 dri­vers held a rally on Mon­day after­noon out­side the Lower Man­hat­tan head­quar­ters of the city’s Taxi and Lim­ou­sine Com­mis­sion, demand­ing that the panel impose a fuel surcharge.

Taxi Dri­vers Seek Fuel Sur­charge — City Room — Metro — New York Times Blog

Tags: taxis, fuel, sur­charge, hybrids