[_delirium]

This is a pretty thin hook to hang a political rant on. Summary of the article: there is a gasoline tax, and there are aviation taxes. Therefore, taxes will stifle the hyperloop! Government bureaucrats!

More likely answer to the headline question: they will do the same thing with the hyperloop as with the maglev (ignore it).

[Anechoic]

they will do the same thing with the hyperloop as with the maglev (ignore it).

The US government didn't ignore maglev, they did a lot of study (including paying for me and my boss to travel to Germany to perform noise and vibration measurements on the TR08) and offered to help finance starter systems. It didn't go anywhere because it was hella expensive, not because of apathy.

[anigbrowl]

Not a real consumer research site either - operator obviously bought up a defunct brand and relaunched it: http://consumersresearch.org/?p=6

[_delirium]

Interesting; quite long-lasting zombie. An organization founded in 1929, but which basically died in 1936, and is somehow still being resurrected today!

Seems it was the precursor of Consumer Reports, but CR was founded when the majority of the staff left in 1936 and founded a new publication. In the 77 years since, it seems the old organization's main achievement is still... that place everyone left to found Consumer Reports.