Those sorts of charges for cars are actually the only proven way to reduce congestion. Increasing lane-miles always comes with diminishing returns and simply spurs on demand to make the problem worse than before. Increasing mass transit simply frees up space that quickly gets consumed by induced demand. Congestion…
Silly Brazilians. Don’t they know that instead of putting 300 people onto a 98 foot long bus, you’re supposed to drive 300 separate 20' long vehicles in a 2-3 mile long convoy to commute to work? Murica!
The number of people I see do that and the number of idiots I see filling up their cars with the engines still running is astounding.
Yes, anti-science. Trying to pretend that the GOP isn’t pushing an anti-science agenda is absurd.
They didn’t set up the electoral college to prevent “urban hipster friends” from “dominating our election process”. They did it because they assumed that the country was too spread out for effective direct elections and that the president should be elected by a group of elites, and they biased the votes in favor of…
True - abatement can be expensive. In those cases, a teardown and rebuild can be better. But that is still preferable to sprawl in terms of efficiency. Zero growth sprawl is inherently inefficient. Look at Detroit for a prime example. Their entire metro area has been flat in population for nearly 50 years but the…
It isn’t a resolution issue where I’m talking about - it is farms and forests covered over in pure zero-growth sprawl.
And yes, newer construction is often more efficient (not always true, but generally so) - but many older buildings could be brought up to newer efficiency standards at lower cost than new construction.
What is sad (as an environmentalist myself) is seeing some urban areas explode with sprawl, but knowing the metro area population barely changed at all over the period, with central areas hollowing out and being abandoned - then seeing massive infrastructure explosions to keep up with the demand as commutes lengthen -…
Ignoring the corruption issues for a second, but does anyone else find it obscene that state incentives have gone so out of control that when “Tesla builds a factory”, it quite literally is the state that is paying for it?
DeVos may not technically be a career politicain, but she’s made a career out of buying off or destroying politicians to get them to bow to her absurd views.
I think most people don’t understand that your kind of swamp was the swamp Trump was planning on destroying. Gotta kill the planet and the environment while he can, you know?
Have any of his picks “drained” anything? Hell, his pick for Secretary of Education ran a political slush fund to funnel campaign contributions to politicians to defund public schools and push charters and vouchers and was found to be in violation of so many laws that the REPUBLICAN AG in Ohio (who is notoriously…
Am i the only one who sees this and thinks it is insane that we’d put up with this instead of building a good mass transit system?
President-> Vice President -> Speaker of the House -> President Pro Tempore -> Secretary of State -> Secretary of Treasury -> Secretary of Defense -> Attorney General -> Secretary of Interior -> Secretary of Agriculture -> Secretary of Commerce -> Secretary of Labor -> Secretary of HHS -> etc, etc.
Currently, Secretary…
Of course, what this doesn’t say is that, while the glass tile seems to be intact, it also is destroyed and needs replacement. And just one damaged tile like that will crush power output from the entire string, so you’re looking at significant costs. Meanwhile standard panels are pretty darned tough and easy to…
Asphalt doesn’t cost anywhere near $20k. For my average home, the bids came in at $5k-$8k for 40 year asphalt shingles. Combine that with the cost of my solar PV system, and I’m still less than half the cost in those estimates of $60-70k
Or you should probably learn that as a problem, it was grossly overstated.
They can’t add shifts. The Louisville plant is already running 3 shifts, 7 days per week. If they’re going to sell more Escapes, they HAVE to move MKC production somewhere else.
1) It wouldn’t be possible for that plant to add shifts. The Louisville assembly plant is already running 3 shifts seven days per week. So unless you figure out a way to add a 4th 8 hour shift in a 24 hour day....
2) No one has confirmed where the MKC production would be moved to. It would be more likely to be moved to…