3 November

This is the Katy freeway, in Texas, 23 lanes wide. It now takes 51% *longer* to travel this stretch of road than when it was 8 lanes wide. This to me is the problem with supply and demand thinking, the same is now happening with water. Building dams has increased supply (short term), which in turn has dramatically increased demand, with large numbers of new irrigators. I don’t think we can solve difficult problems without dealing with ideas. The truth is rarely what we call common sense, code words for laziness and ignorance.