Costa Samaras

costasamaras.com

28 May 2024 08:40

Since 2008, the federal gas tax has only covered about half of federal highway expenses. The other half comes from: regular old tax revenue from everybody, no matter if they drive or not. That’s right, today’s hottest and most subsidized technology is: highways.

Costa Samaras

costasamaras.com

28 May 2024 12:36

In the next inflation reduction act climate policy, we need to strengthen and pass the E-BIKE Act and build protected bike infrastructure and deploy bike storage. Also, instead of carbon credits for junk projects, companies should sell ebikes cheap, for credits www.peopleforbikes.org/news/ebike-a...

Akshat Rathi

akshatrathi.bsky.social

28 May 2024 12:38

"Australia's national science agency CSIRO finds what every other credible study on nuclear power has shown: It's too slow and costs too much compared to renewables." www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Costa Samaras

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29 May 2024 07:54

Serious housing policy is one that gets lots of energy efficient homes built near where people want to live, and that is serious climate policy. Anything else is unserious and also, bad for the climate. Need to climate retrofit what we have & build way more new homes than you think. LFG.

Costa Samaras

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03 June 2024 05:48

Pretty cool that Claudia Sheinbaum will be Mexico’s first President who is a woman and Mexico’s first Jewish President. She is also an energy and decarbonization researcher and IPCC contributing author. Congratulations!