Batteries can fill a similar peaker role as a gas plant. You won't be able to cram enough solar panels in the same footprint to replace the plant on its existing footprint.

We could probably just replace the plant with a utility scale battery installation and leverage underutilized transmission capacity at night to charge it. The plant can produce 600 MW. Another Tesla battery site in Ontario is rated for 250 MW output on a portion of a 10 acre plot. In marketing...

I had it around Christmas, I think shot in the late fall. It was a bit like roast beef crossed with turkey. It was fine.

I have. It's just okay.

If the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is adopted, then every vote becomes relevant. 39% of the electoral college is already on board, and it would come into effect once 50% participates. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact

I think the idea of how 'roads are paid for' is a red herring. Road tolls are not about drawing a dotted line from those revenues to the construction and maintenance of roadways. Tolls are useful for managing the dramatic mismatch in the demand and supply of highways. We can't practically add...

You only need some people to make different decisions. We don't need the 401 to be empty.

There are some people on the 401 who do have transit alternatives. People can carpool (I know people who carpool to share the cost of the 407). People can travel at different times to take advantage of lower rates off peak. People can make different decisions about where they live and work...

This is true, but the 407 tolls are very high for trucks.

Do you think that would actually fix the 401? Those are laudable ideas, but the reality is that the 401 would remain in a state of daily failure. Toronto has some of the worst congestion in the world and it is strangling the city's economy. I'd be more worried about that than the cost for...

A few thoughts: If the gas tax represents a toll, it is demonstrably too low to manage congestion on the 401. So raise it. If we want to be more surgical, then implement road tolls. If the 401 was tolled heavily, perhaps that would shift some travel demand for long distance through traffic to...

Ok. Sounds like there would be lots of motivated new customers for GO Express buses that would actually be able to achieve decent speeds.

The Chinese OEMs will be building plants in Mexico. Mexico is already attractive from a labour cost perspective to production in China for export.

Trouble is, Trump has also flip flopped on many issues. Harris is a former prosecutor and very adept at going on the attack.

Both are sensible suggestions. I wonder if, once Advance Driver Assistance Systems/vehicular autonomy becomes more widespread if we will see a decline in collisions on highways, and their resulting congestion. It really should happen, but it will be hard to stop cowboy drivers from engaging in...

This piece? https://www.theglobeandmail.com/drive/culture/article-driving-in-america-is-better-because-of-road-tolls/ We need to bypass the people who insist that tolls can only be implemented when every single person has a high quality transit based alternative to their trip. That day will...

Is that just Buccees? I saw fast food jobs being advertised for $11/hr in Texas.

Keep in mind the ZEV mandate for 2035 allows for plug-in hybrids as well. It may still not be achievable, but plug in hybrids will cover a large swath of the market that is not well addressed by EVs in the near term.

Trump has really been spinning the last few weeks. His flip-flopping on the Florida abortion access ballot initiative shows how stuck he is between a rock and a hard place, on an issue that is determinative for a large swath of the electorate. The Republicans have really screwed themselves by...

The anti-immigration sentiment is quite different in Europe vs Canada. In Canada it is mostly a pragmatic concern around our ability to house, employ and provide services to all the newcomers at the rate we have been accepting them, whereas in Europe it is a concern around loss of cultural...