If energy abundance is your aim, you need to win the fight to import the best tech from China. If housing abundance is your aim you need to win the immigration fight so you can have enough construction workers. Without attempting to try to win those fights, great policy visions are DOA.

And really quick, in some ways a bit too quick. The biggest obstacles for solar are domestic politics in US (anti-renewable and China), the biggest obstacle for Natural Gas is just the way its supply chain work.

A lot of countries felt natural gas was the way forward. They have gone back to coal and/or imported solar from China in large numbers. Natural gas isn’t ready for energy sufficiency capacity let alone energy abundance.

Aggregated passes should be more flexible. They shouldn’t run strictly from Monday to Monday or from the 1st of the month. Instead, they should be valid for 7, 30, or 365 days starting from the date of issue. The also make transit related welfare efforts much easier.

In general if one feels that we will reach few million L4/L5 soon, they should explain how would hardware costs be low enough? Whats the solution to handing challenges with data per car and mapping local environments. How do updates happen reliably with all the hardware and software constraints?

One shouldn’t plan economy or urban environment around self driving cars. It won’t be economical to do so and most likely there wouldn’t be that many of self driving cars. Even if one assumes a lot of regulations safeguards are rolled back.

The cost and scale would be very different with importing from China or even other Asian countries with Chinese supply chains. Like the dot com was about Internet companies and cable infrastructure. The AI and data centre build out would have nicely aligned with batteries and solar.

The problem American climate change effort is that it’s less about Fox News but more about bipartisan consensus about China and how powerful domestic auto companies are. BYD and cheaper electricity due to Chinese imports would be more resilient than Biden’s IRA effort in red states.

This isn’t really true. Tariffs combined with dairy and ethanol issue would do well with the “dead economy” narrative. BJP doesn’t want to talk about the economy or justify their economy. It’s an issue it completely avoids. It’s why pliant media is doing the attacking but BJP isn’t confronting.

This isn’t true? The entire price cap system was based on the idea that someone would do this and ensure the prices don’t go up globally.

Our focus is housing, but the biggest victims of NIMBYism in Indian cities are public schools. If there is any residential area nearby, it becomes nearly impossible to build such schools, even when land, bureaucracy, and funding are all in place.