$116.50, +1 for a new metrocard Uber beats subway by $16.50; or three and a bit uberpools/month

But there is the whole: subway = nuclear power = low carbon footprint vs uber = dead dinosaurs.

The math here is wrong. Uber is offering two weeks for $100, not one month.

Does the NYC Subway really run on nuclear power? I had no idea, but that is cool.

Lots of power in NYC is nuclear, but not all. At least some proportion of electrons in that third rail will have be excited by nuclear heat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_New_...

Probably half nuclear: http://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=NY#tabs-4

The rest is mostly natural gas, and virtually no coal. I'm jealous! (Here in Virginia, it's about one third each of coal, gas, and nuclear.)

Isn't Virginia a huge coal-mining state? I'm surprised nuclear is that high of a percentage.

I recall visiting a coal-mining museum in some state that had a big coal industry, and it was amazing how optimistic and pro-coal the whole thing was. (Note that I said "amazing", not "surprising".)

There's some here, but most of the coal mining activity is further west. West Virginia is the biggest coal state on the east coast and second biggest in the US. Nice map here:

http://www.virginiaplaces.org/geology/coal.html

It looks like their electricity is absolutely dominated by coal.

Even though not much in mined in state, we're close enough to WV and others that it seems like it would still be the obvious source here. I'm not sure why it's not, although I'm glad!

Many large companies in manhattan participate in pretax programs that allow people (myself included) to get a monthly metro card for ~60 dollars. So yeah these types of programs will never compete with that.

And the whole exploiting people who don't understand the math of their business and are actually losing money / putting themselves into life altering IRS debt thing...

There's also the whole: subway = not air conditioned and miserable, uber = air conditioned and comfortable. Also, as a Hudson Valley resident for most of my life, Indian Point and nuclear power in general is a huge concern for me.

I'd assume I'm getting downvoted because I made a comment about my trepidation towards nuclear power.. If you lived within an emergency evacuation zone for a nuclear plant you may feel the same (disclaimer: I don't, but I lived close enough to Indian Point to feel unsafe, and everytime I take Metro North and see it fly past my window, I think what a risk it is)...

Indian Point is a liability to the people and the ecosystems of the lower Hudson Valley. New York State / Cuomo recently denied Entergy's certificate to continue using the Hudson River (1), which they are battling in court. Terrorism risks aside, this is not a state of the art nuclear plant. It's over 40 years old, the bolts are (literally) starting to break (2), and there was a recent radioactive leak (3) into the HUDSON RIVER. How can this not be worrying? It's been shown that NY can maintain energy levels at a cost of 20-30% higher without nuclear power (4), a number I hope will decrease as NY improves wind and solar (mind you, this report is from the Manhattan Institute, a think tank that vehemently supports fracking). This comes down to an increase of $76–$112 per residential customer. Personally, I'd be willing to pay twice that if it meant shutting down IP.

1. http://www.riverkeeper.org/news-events/news/stop-polluters/p... 2. http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/ops-experience/baffle-... 3. http://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/indian-point/2016/02/0... 4. https://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/economic-impacts-cl...

You may also be getting downvoted because the subway system is air conditioned.

Most lines have working AC. But I bet that anyone (myself included) that complains about the NYC subway being hot is most likely referring to the 10-15 minutes of hell standing on a subway platform in absolute delirium-inducing 95 degree, 100% humidity, Gotham city fresh air.

When I was in New York this summer I carried around a sweater because it was too cold in the subway. It was 30-33°C outside most of the time (the Google machine tells me that's 86-91°F). It's true that the subway stations were miserably hot, though. (I'm European, but you can probably tell from my complaining about American air conditioning)