gregor.us
Journalist covering cities, climate, and energy.
Proprietor of Cold Eye Earth (formerly The Gregor Letter)
https://www.coldeye.earth | @coldeye.earth
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Perhaps the word is expansion, the intent to expand it. Just to say, I'm aware of the long accumulated, cascading series of public policy failures that got us here, that make the expansion of rent-control sound like a workable solution.
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What's especially depressing about the rent-control idea is that it arrives, resurrected, after a cascading series of public policy failures around the building of housing...that make rent-control sound like a workable solution.
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Understood. That the law is still on the books doesn't strike me as an argument in its favor, especially given NYC's lived experience with rent control. So, any candidate's intent to revive it strikes me as an effective way to lose politically b/c its paleo policy, long since rejected.
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7. Full repeal of current federal energy and climate policies would: Substantially slow electricity capacity additions, raising national average retail electricity rates and monthly household electricity bills by about 9% in 2030 —and as much as 17% in some states.
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Yup. It's a beautiful test. (Of course, I said the same prior to the decision in Trump v US).
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The Gandhi Moment is shorthand for several poignant life experiences he experienced--the most typical one being abused and removed from a train after he'd returned to India post eduction/law in the UK. It crystalized his thinking about injustice. HTH. www.history.com/this-day-in-...
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The OG, of course.
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I'm glad to have people out there tracking this stuff in real time. We know for example that road fuel consumption in China has been leveling off for a while. Very encouraging.
My skepticism tho is quite specific: the faulty methodology of extrapolation, and making big claims as a result. HTH.
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Republicans want to think we can tariff our way back to Ohio circa 1975. We cannot. They really want trade to be the culprit for Rust Belt decline; it mostly isn’t. They are also unwilling to admit how much immigration has helped the South. 3/4
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Take note also that the good folks at @cicero.oslo.no have not engaged in the flawed, and pseudo-scientific game of calling "peak emissions."