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Still a long shot, but excited to see permitting reform at the top of the list for potential bipartisan legislation
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If we want the Trillion dollars in green energy funding to be widely used, we need permitting reform.
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Uh oh. Some of that inflation slowdown that people (including me) were excited about might have just been a seasonal adjustment quirk.
Core CPI for the last 3 months of the year goes from 3.1% to 4.3% with the new seasonal factors BLS just released according to @RiccardoTrezzi.
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Well that's unfortunate, you don't want to see inflation getting revised upwards.
This is great news, here's a paper explaining why it's important.
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It’s honestly criminal that speed and red light cameras aren’t more ubiquitous given how effective they are at preventing death and serious injury.
![…speed cameras reduce speeding and/or crashes.33 In its evidence-based guide to traffic safety measures, NHTSAgives ATE (including both speed cameras and red light cameras the highest rating for effectiveness;34 the setting of speed limits themselves is the only other countermeasure rated as demonstrated to be effective in limiting speeding.35 Similarly, automated speed enforcement is the only speeding-related countermeasure included by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in its tool to enable states to model cost-effective interventions to reduce traffic deaths and injuries.36 The NTSB also considers automated speed enforcement to be "an effective countermeasure to reduce speeding-related crashes, fatalities, and injuries.](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.substack.com%2Fmedia%2FFooXpVBXEAEPSY-.jpg)
From the Congressional Research Service, I'm sorta amazed to see the CDC weighing in, but I'm happy they agree with me.
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• I think Kevon Martis has been brought up before, but here's a new thread discussing his decade long quest to block solar and wind projects.