On the road to a new bicycle tax in Washington state — more on that in a second — a legislator, by his own admission, said a rather silly thing to a Tacoma bike shop owner last week.
“If I am not mistaken, a cyclists [sic] has an increased heart rate and respiration,” state Rep. Ed Orcutt wrote in a Feb. 25 email to that owner, Dale Carlson, who shared it with the Los Angeles Times. “That means the act of riding a bike results in greater emissions of carbon dioxide from the rider. Since CO2 is deemed to be a greenhouse gas and a pollutant, bicyclists are actually polluting when they ride.”
The email quickly became  … More