Except that having light rail, or transit in general like the city down the road that charges an extra 18.5 cents a litre for transit, means less cars on the road, which equals less wear and a better driving experience for drivers. The city (Greater Vancouver, actually a bunch of cities) down the road has the 3rd most used transit in N. America so quite a few people use transit rather then drive. It will vary on location.
Isn't that already a problem or are the taxes equal between all countries there? Where I am, it is/was common to drive a short distance to the States and fill up as the taxes are about half, and drive back avoiding paying the tax. Actually the city down the road has a 18.5 cent a litre transit tax so people drive here to fill up and avoid the tax. If you live close to the boundary, it's just a couple of miles of extra driving to save quite a bit of money, especially if you bring lots of gas jugs.
Government subsidies often do lower prices. Looking, it seems that the actual operating prices are pretty opaque, couple of relevant paragraphs from wiki,
Électricité de France (EDF) – the country's main electricity generation and distribution company – manages the country's nuclear power plants.[62] In 2007 EDF was substantially owned by the French government, with around 85% of EDF shares in government hands.[63] 78.9% of Areva shares are owned by the French public sector company CEA and are therefore in public ownership. EDF remains heavily in debt. Its profitability suffered during the recession which began in 2008. It made €3.9 billion in 2009, which fell to €1.02 billion in 2010, with provisions set aside amounting to €2.9 billion.[citation needed] The Nuclear industry has been accused of significant cost overruns and failing to cover the total costs of operation, including waste management and decommissioning.[64][full citation needed][failed verification]
Though it seems the above may be out of date,
As of 2015, France's household electricity price, excluding taxation, is the 12th cheapest amongst the 28 member European Union and the second-cheapest to industrial consumers.[69] The actual cost of generating electricity by nuclear power is not published by EDF or the French government but is estimated to be between €59/MWh and €83/MWh.[70]
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... which also has other interesting info.
There's a few, BTK and Diatomaceous earth come to mind. First is a bacteria that attacks grubs, including caterpillars and the 2nd is sharp stuff that scratches exoskeletons which kills the insects.
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Mint comes with Timeshift and suggests using it.
Do you really think it is stupid to use a credit union, as socialist of an organization as you will find, owned by the users and run democratically, instead of a bank, a capitalist organization.
Good point
The problem is that even the measles vaccine is only 97% effective after 2 doses, which means 3% of vaccinated people will still get measles if it is circulating. That's like 10 million Americans.
Go back to the 19th century and the same kind of bullshit about vaccines was happening with smallpox, a very deadly disease.
Perhaps he is talking about AstraZenaca, which did cause a few deaths through blood clots and was withdrawn in favour of the safer mRNA vaccines. Which showed the checking for safety worked.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health...
And that brand new vaccine was banned pretty quick when a couple of people died from blood clots, so we fell back to the other brand new vaccines based on mRNA tech which was late becoming available here in Canada.
That's the thing, when a brand new vaccine showed problems, it was banned as it should be, especially with safe alternatives.
Dr. Samir Gupta, a respirologist at St Michael's Hospital in Toronto, said what's important is that the creation of the AstraZeneca vaccine, testing, roll out, discovery of complications and stopping of vaccine distribution played out as it should for a new pandemic virus.
According to media reports, AstraZeneca previously admitted in court documents that the vaccine can cause rare side-effects such as blood clots and low blood platelet counts.
"Ultimately we can't forget that the virus is worse than the vaccine, even with this complication," Gupta said in an interview on CBC News Network.
The people voted for this? Sounds more like corruption.
Except China was not part of the Budapest Memorandum, which was signed by the UK, Russia, USA and Ukraine. France and China did sign separate agreements with the one China signed basically reaffirming the UN stand on hostilities between nations with no guarantees. https://web.archive.org/web/20... also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I don't think they use indicator bulbs anymore. Instead it is one piece, LED in a chunk of plastic. A burnt out light can now cost thousands to fix. How many sources they have for those one piece specialized lights is likely low, perhaps even only one.
Having standard parts that are easy to swap is not profitable. Same with parts that last.
One thing that is different this time is there has been very little retaliation while Smoot Hawley triggered a trade war between all nations. I think the only countries that retaliated this time were Canada and China.
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