Daily Kos: Bad Idea in the Arid West, or, Why Don't We Grow Carrots?

This water-gobbling bill is part of the terrible transportation bill (says the New York Times) now working its way through the House, less a serious policy document than a wish list for oil lobbyists (says the Los Angeles Times), the "worst transportation bill I've ever seen" (says Republican Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood), and a list of all the transport bill's failings would be a very long list indeed. Oil shale, Arctic drilling, and California offshore drilling are all years away from generating revenue, if ever, so sticking them into a transport bill on the pretense that they’ll pay for roads defies credibility. The Congressional Budget Office finds the obvious - a not-commercially-feasible technology will generate no revenue.