In the latest edition of the blame game, the Beijing Municipal Government is pointing at the finger at car booking services Uber and Didi Zhuanche for Beijing's congestion.

Of course, this is nonsensical. Beijing only allows 20,000 new cars per month to hit the road, and since neither Uber nor Didi Zhuanche own the cars in which their customer ride, they are not adding new cars to the road, although it could be argued that these cars spend more time on the road than personal use of private cars.

What's interesting is that New York City's moronic mayor Bill Di Blasio just tried the same thing, but to no avail. Di Blasio tried to cap the growth of Uber cars in New York, and failed. Passengers are funny that way, how they want clean cars at the time they want them where they want them, instead of unhailable taxis with rude drivers that stink.

Instead of cracking down on these car services, maybe the Beijing municipal government should try to deal with local taxi drivers, which are an embarrassment to the city and have been for years. Did you know that every Beijing taxi once (and maybe still does) had the capacity to accept payment via the city's public transportation card? Taxi drivers just started telling everyone the machine was broken or that they couldn't accept it.

Uber may not be perfect (when was the last time your Uber driver wasn't 100 percent reliant on GPS to find anywhere) but the car shows up, the drivers are nice, and there's no need to have change. Isn't that what a taxi is supposed to do?

Geez, Uber even served ice cream on Friday. Ever get ice cream from your local taxi driver?