The cost estimates were almost identical to what it will cost to replace Brent Spence. When you use existing right of ways and abandoned lines, the cost is much lower. Cincinnati is spread out, but also with pretty consistent traffic patterns and very heavily trafficked corridors. You provide frequent convient transit…
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And that freight can be moved more efficiently in other manners. We have an overdependence on road transit for freight because it is massively subsidized, a benefit not given to other methods of transport.
Mass transit does receive subsidies. No doubt about it. But it remains FAR more efficient on a per seat mile basis…
Functionally obsolete is not the same as structurally deficient.
The concrete that has fallen was from a much newer section of the ramps approaching the bridge - hardly an indicator of the overall bridge condition.
As for taxes, yes, we pay gas taxes. But those taxes barely add up to HALF of what this country spends on…
No authority? Absolute nonsense.
Just about everything in the equation falls under the commerce clause. Electricity? That’s interstate (parts of texas excluded). Light bulb sales? Interstate. Power plant emissions? Interstate.
And then factor in the fact that lack of efficiency affects national security....
The market…
Did we?
We’ve had the majority of Ohioans vote for Democrats, but thanks to massive gerrymandering, 75% of our house members are Republican.
$8000 over the life of the vehicle, not per year. Infographic was poorly done.
Adjust for real GDP. Nominal dollars mean nothing.
It’s a LOT harder to take the on-budget deficit from 10.8% of GDP to 2.3% than it is to take it from 2.4% of GDP to 5.2% of GDP. One is a vast improvement. The other is a complete failure in governance.
It doesn’t matter if we get -0- oil from the middle east. We’re still dependent on the middle east for oil.
How? Oil is fungible. Say the middle east decides to shut in all production like in the 70s. Or turns itself into a glass parking lot. Or even cuts production very slightly to create a supply shortage. Most of…
Brent Spence is still structurally sound. It still easily handles the traffic load throughout the day except for during rush hour.
Yet the metro area seems hellbent on the only possible solution being a subsidized expansion of capacity that further shoehorns us into an inefficient transportation system. And by subsidy,…
There is nothing “shitty” with wind as an energy source, and there is plenty of it in North America. The only problem is storage, but grid operators say that won’t become an issue until nondispatchable renewables exceed about 15% of supply. We’re not even close to that yet.
Who cancelled the renewable energy tax credit?
It was scheduled to go away when he took office. The stimulus (ARRA) is what extended it. In case you forgot, Obama signed the stimulus and only three Republicans (Snowe, Collins, Specter) supported it.
But... but... the ACA forced my doctor to stop accepting my health insurance! I know so because Glenn Beck told me so!
Cheapest? Not even close. It only appears that way because of government intervention. We’ve provided massive subsidies to building roads and facilitating transportation by individual cars. Take those subsidies away and there are much cheaper ways to move around.
That’s also how we got to the point where the Texas Board of Education by default sets textbooks for the rest of the country. They’re too big to ignore by textbook companies, so when they demand that the textbook praise St. Reagan and question evolution, it does. Then the rest of the country has to live with their…
No one outlawed incandescent light bulbs. The government (and this was under the Bush administration, remember) set efficiency standards for light bulbs. Anything that could meet those standards was permissible. Why set standards? Because we were wasting massive amounts of energy on lighting, and the market had failed…
Whoever put together this infographic did a poor job. The claim has been $8000 in savings over the life of the vehicle. With the average vehicle lasting roughly 15 years, that’s $533 in savings per year.
That number is much more reasonable. That’s basically going from 25 mpg to 35 mpg at 15,000 miles per year at $3.10…
For those who fretted about the headlights from the concept....
I personally don’t give a lick where the headquarters is based. If Toyota employed more Americans per car sold in the US than Ford, I’d consider them more American than Ford even if they were still headquartered in Japan and the US, respectively.
When it comes down to me choosing a vehicle, I first consider what I…
To be fair, “the most American car” label is a bunch of bullshit. Cars.com takes an arbitrary cut off for domestic content % and reorders based on sales. The first year the Camry got that label, there were **41** vehicles on the market with higher domestic content than the Camry, but lower sales numbers.
It also fails…