Gas futures look very scary
Oil tops $140 after OPEC price prediction
Cartel’s president says oil price could top $150 a barrel
Should we drill for U.S. black gold?
June 26: NBC’s Janet Shamlian looks at the debate over opening up additional coastal areas for drilling.
Russian immigrant owns 200 medallions - & counting!
He’s not even 40 yet, but Gene Freidman is fast becoming one of the taxi kings of New York.
The Russian immigrant has dominated recent medallion auctions and now owns 200 of the lucrative licenses, making him one of the biggest players in the business.
May 17th, 2008 | 2 comments| | Continued
CUSSER’S LAST STAND
Cuss and be fined, a foul-mouthed Manhattan cabby discovered.
Zbigniew Sobczak dropped the f-bomb on another hack on the Upper West Side, jumping out of his cab at Central Park West and 65th Street and cussing a blue streak at driver Malik Rizwan.
May 14th, 2008 | 4 comments| | Continued
Cabdrivers’ double whammy: Rising gas prices & fewer fares
Cabbie Zaman Kamrul sees the soaring price of gas and the falloff in fares and the numbers don’t add up.
While the cost of filling up his taxi has doubled from $20 to up to $40 a day in the decade Kamrul has been driving, he’s picking up fewer passengers to cover the cost.
“People are mostly […]
May 13th, 2008 | 3 comments| | Continued
Fleets beg to keep gas guzzlin’ taxi
Taxi fleet owners Thursday petitioned the Bloomberg administration for a temporary reprieve for the roomy stretch Crown Victoria cabs - the workhorse that’s dominated the streets for a decade.
The city’s green mandate requiring cabs get at least 25 miles per gallon after October of this year, and 30 miles per gallon after next October, will […]
May 13th, 2008 | 3 comments| | Continued
Cab fares plunging as struggling N.Y.ers try to save money
New Yorkers looking to save a few bucks in this slumping economy are opting to walk or take the subway instead of hailing a cab.
“I’m late for everything, so I usually just hop in a cab. But it’s adding up,” said Mark Jensen, a 27-year-old law student from Manhattan as he waited for a crosstown […]
May 12th, 2008 | 0 comments| | Continued
Yoga class helps cab driver relax
Andrew Vollo knows what a 12-hour shift behind the wheel of a taxi can do to a guy’s back. “I started driving a cab when I was working my way through Queens College,” the 54-year-old says. “I drove a taxi for 15 years, and I had a lot of pain.”
He started studying Tai Chi, […]
April 30th, 2008 | 2 comments| | Continued
The Greening of the Yellow Fleet
Gerard Cherizol says gas costs $25 a day less.
OWNERS of hybrid cars from Boston to San Francisco like to boast about how their vehicles not only save them money at the gas pump, but help the environment, too.
Hybrid Hacks
There are 13,150 taxi medallions on New York City streets, and 1,020 (or about 7.8 percent) are […]
April 26th, 2008 | 5 comments| | Continued
Clearing New York City Streets
The state legislature’s refusal to approve Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s plan to collect a fee from drivers entering the most congested parts of Manhattan leaves unanswered the question of how to finance construction of transportation infrastructure vital to the city’s future. But on the narrower problem of reducing congestion, New York City has a pricing mechanism […]
April 14th, 2008 | 0 comments| | Continued
Mayor’s Duck Is Looking A Bit Lame
With congestion pricing, a signature initiative of Mayor Bloomberg’s second term, dead in Albany, the term-limited leader may increasingly resemble a lame duck as he heads into the final stretch of his tenure at City Hall.
The demise of congestion pricing deals a significant blow to Mr. Bloomberg’s agenda and marks his second major initiative to […]
April 8th, 2008 | 0 comments| | Continued
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