O'Toole's report debunks myths about costs, subsidies, and environmental impacts of driving and public transit.
A popular myth involves highway subsidies, O'Toole said. "Contrary to popular belief, there are no federal subsidies to highways and few state subsidies," he said. "The only real subsidies to North Carolina roads come from local governments. But if you add federal, state, and local numbers together, North Carolina highway users paid about $203 million more in user fees than was spent on roads in 2007. In other words, gas taxes and highway user fees are subsidizing other government programs."
Yglesias is famous for wanting money from gas taxes for other uses, then claiming that gas taxes do not support roads.
O'Toole was referring to the horrid state of finances for NC transit, a generator of waste and greenhouse gases.
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