I suspect the revenue loss is at the local level, possibly from jobs as much as raw materials, and the subsidies are at the Federal level.

Brilliant.

The bridge clearance appears to be about 150 ft. The masts span about 30+ parking spaces, figure 8 feet wide each, that’s 240 feet above the deck. Even if the spaces are only 6 feet, that is still 180 feet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7Xh2hf03PY shows that as of July 1, 2022 the masts were in a parking lot.

From AB5:

Still no sign that the ship has been fitted with the masts. I would have expected a photo at websites devoted to such boats if it had been, but nada.

That “vicious cycle” is just how systems find equilibrium. It’s really bad if that give and take doesn’t happen - which is how oil prices went to negative values for a while. The lingering problem is the refiners with their thumbs on the balance holding the prices higher than they would otherwise be, held there by the…

Reinvigorating the Salton Sea community is the last thing California needs. It was developed by two brain-dead ideas. The first was a short-circuit canal to bring water to use it as farm land. When that blew up and it drowned, the farm region there came project to bring salt-water fishing to an inland location, which…

One design problem is that drivers select a speed that is related to their sense of risk; that is, if there is a way to gauge risk, they keep the needle set at one level regardless. It’s difficult to change the road to slow drivers down without increasing the actual risk in order to do so.

That is true as long as there is no other interruption and everyone is on board. I’ve never seen it to be true. There is just about always someone driving with the apparent rule that they need to overtake everyone ahead of them by 5-10mph, leading to those compressed platoons bunched up in the left lane, even when the…

There are some small towns with that attitude - however I used to commute through about a half-dozen on frequent trips - just like that 65->35mph. They were plainly marked so not just to sneak revenue. What I noticed was that some of the town was on one side and some of it was on the other, meaning that they were…

It was green light, not green arrow, so it’s not clear what’s going on with that.

“It’s also entirely possible the Prius driver had every intention to turn right”

Keep in mind that the thrust line from the propeller is below the wing, trying to force the nose up. Since it is a tail dragger the nose starts already up. The pilot would typically hold back on the stick until the plane was going fast enough for the rudder to gain control and then push the nose down to get the tail…

A while back there was a report on motorcycle fatalities. While it showed a bias to new riders, that was a disguise for a different cause - that the riders were often on new to-the-rider bikes and this was hitting “experienced” riders at about the same rate as new riders. It was just that new riders default to new…

“Due to the microchip shortage ...”

Sure in a 30mph zone a 120mph car is what I’m expected to judge correctly going from a distant dot in 3 seconds to blasting by?

The problem is estimating speed. If it normally takes 20 seconds to close that gap and they car oncoming does it in 5, then it moves from, plenty of time, to Nope.

This is IIHS, not NHTSA. As far as I am concerned the larger A pillars are a direct result of IIHS safety crash testing to protect the occupants without regard to anyone else.

That statistics/probability relation is weird. Sure, the more SUVs there are the more often they hit pedestrians; if there were no SUVs then no SUVs could hit anyone.