He testified that when you looked at it through the eyes of 'let's do it', the costs were very small. They were less than they'd had to spend to host a convention of transportation executives. The cost was not that great.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
One answer is that the town's elected officials thought that the project served a public purpose and that the various subsidies and favors were worth the price. But they may or may not have thought this.
I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.
I think the reality is that, that money was probably badly spent.
A number of us had conversations with the Kerry campaign about what he was going to say about CAFE. What he told us was that he did not want to sacrifice jobs and that he wanted to work with the auto industry to achieve that goal.
Most of the population cannot afford a private driver. What we're doing is relentlessly innovating to bring the price point down.
It was very constraining, much more than I ever would have thought, to run for governor.
This is his solution: He said all we need to do is take your tax dollars, send them to Washington, have Washington take out its cut, having Washington then send it back to the states, have the states then go out and hire public employees. Does that make sense to you? Is that how to get the economy moving?
Private jets cost a lot of money.
Traffic was very, very free. It was great.
Autonomy was shopped to us. We looked at the price and thought it was absurdly high.