Thursday, June 16, 2011

Cost/Benefit Voodoo

This has been around for decades. The Bureau of Reclamation used to come up with a positive cost/benefit analysis by boosting the benefits of a new dam by assigning a dollar value to recreational benefits, generally with zero justification. Environmentalists blasted the practice, but guess what the EPA is doing to support its proposed changes to the Clean Air Act.

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