Sigh. First off, drop the approach you're taking in responding to everyone. It resembles Glenn Beck or Alex Jones spending an entire hour of their program dissecting a ten-second audio clip. It's just as annoying to read as it is to hear it on the radio.

Your "point" is to parrot Eric Musser's contention that there are many taxi permits not in service ("If memory serves me, the current number of permits is 188 and nearly thirty percent of those are not active"). One person, who has around three or four decades' worth of experience in this business, has commented multiple times on related stories claiming otherwise ("Bottom line Musser is incorrect about number of cabs on the road. I have a 1000 to back that up"). As you've carried on to such excess, it appears that what you really want is for me to ignore the voice of experience and instead take the word of a political hack/talking head like Musser as gospel truth because the ADN is willing to spend ink on him.