Never mind the fact that the increased cost of an EV puts it out of the price range of a lot of people especially now that the subsidies are gone.
In Europe, the price of an EV is on par with a gasoline car right now, and in East Asia, EVs are cheaper than gasoline cars.
We even have the reverse problem. With Lithium prices skyrocketing a few years ago (and returning to normal now), lots of businesses popped up to recycle used car batteries to sell the lithium for a profit. Most of those businesses struggle now, because there are not enough batteries to recycle, because they are still healthy and going strong.
The dataset [...] covers 2.75 billion buildings, each mapped with footprints and heights at a spatial resolution of 3 meters by 3 meters.
It does not only seem so, it's right there in the description.
With one important difference, this reminds me of the 1974 Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act, which established a national speed limit of 55 MPH. States had to either adopt a state speed limit of 55 MPH, or else lose out on funding, i.e. get punished.
Of course, that was a law enacted by Congress, not an Executive order. I guess, traditionally, they say that for first quarter millennium of America, Congress held the purse strings because some inky piece of paper said they were supposed to, as if Congress could ever handle that much responsibility! Can you imagine?! Anyway, we've decided Fuck That Tradition, let's try something new and put a thieving tool in charge of the purse.
If only the US had some sort of aid program designed to try to make conditions more favourable in the sort of countries that economic migrants tend to flee from. Maybe the US could call it "US Aid" or something, and give it a decent budget rather than gutting it to save $23 per American
Yes the CIA would like its slush fund back as well as all the other scammers who were ripping that program off. It's was a great idea that, unfortunately, became a disaster
But the main issue is that the proper solution isÂobviouslyÂto have a formal, controlled, actually viable work visa system for economic migrants
You mean the migrant worker program that has been in place for decades? 25 years ago I moved to an area with lots of orchards. They bring in fruit pickers from Jamaica and did so for decades before I moved here. They would come in from Jamaica during harvest south of here and work their way north to pick fruit then go back to Jamaica and live off of what they made until the next year. They didn't pump huge sums of money into the economy.
Basic worker protections but not the minimum wages or benefits that citizens get. You drop off an application for a sponsoring company, and so long as you're employed with them and not causing problems, you can stay. Fired, laid off, or quit, and you go back to your country (where you can reapply for a different job).
That's basically how the migrant worker program was designed to work. On one hand I get it, it keeps prices in the US down. On the other hand it's an awful lot like indentured servitude.
Aren't these the only ones that actually matter?
Friction is a drag.
