Why nobody to my knowledge has cost out a parallel project using just ‘Google’ buses is beyond me. I think they’d cost about 5% of what the current project is guessed at and the cost of use would be about 5%, also. And no tearing up the state. (If we were tearing it up for a oil or gas pipeline it would never ever get built.)

That might be surprisingly easy. Let Cap & Trade money go to the general fund. When the economy goes into recession again, the funds will go to pay off losses in the state retirement system. Not necessarily a great outcome but the Democrat donor base won’t say a word.