One of my personal failings is being sure I'm right, even when I'm not. It's a trait I share with many bloggers, but knowing that, I am careful to check myself and offer up my sources. (In my grown-up blog for Growth & Justice, I am even more meticulous.)
I want readers to be able to rely on what I write here.
So I need to admit an error.
In critiquing estimates of how much the gas tax would cost certain poster children for the anti-tax movement, I made some calculations of their costs based on an outdated description of how quickly a gas tax would phase in. As a result, I unintentionally underestimated the short-term impact on those drivers. Maybe not a big deal, since the amounts are still small, except I was criticizing others for using numbers in a way that would inflate the impact.
If I were a newspaper, I'd say something like, Across the Great Divide regrets the error. Even more, so do I.
