The only realistic way for transit officials to garner public support for the funding they desperately need is to demonstrate an ability to replace car trips, not just serve economically disadvantaged people who lack other means to get around their city. Otherwise, they forfeit the pro-transit arguments that resonate most with the public: curtailing congestion, reducing auto emissions, and boosting economic growth.
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Or they can use some of that money to attempt an miracle and turn Port Jervis into bustling tourist spot… hahah even for someone like me who grew up there think that would be quite the task (not to say that I haven’t heard some interesting ideas cooked up by the locals). They should try to expand transit from NYC past Middletown to near these tourist areas instead with more buses available at those locations. They would have to build less parking spots too if they did something like that.
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Weather disasters and poor environmental regulatory oversights = pricier soft drinks
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/sugar-getting-even-pricier-poses-000616461.html
Prices of refined sugar surged to the highest in more than a decade this week, and are on track to jump about 11% in March, the most for a month since 2021. The raw variety, meanwhile, is hovering near its most expensive level in over six years. Global supplies are becoming tighter, mainly because India, one of the world’s top shippers, is cutting exports after rains hurt the sugar cane crop and as the country diverts more of the sweetener to make biofuel.
Exports from India are set to almost halve to 6 million tons in the year ending in September from about 11 million tons a year earlier, and could slump to as low as 4 million tons next season, according to a Bloomberg survey of traders and analysts. That reduces supply in a market that’s already tipped to show a shortage next year by consultancies Green Pool and Covrig Analytics.
If the country exports less sweetener than expected next season, “prices will have to rise to extract sugar from any other part of the world,” said Henrique Akamine, head of sugar and ethanol at Tropical Research Services.
India is responsible for 6 million tons in our balance sheet for international sugar trade flows in 2023-24, said Akamine. “If you simply remove even half of what we’re forecasting, the trade flow will go into deficit.”
The jump in sugar prices has already worsened the impact of inflation in the UK with shoppers paying more for baked goods, sweets and fizzy drinks.
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It’s worse than you think. Americans are literally addicted to sugar and corn syrup. A lot of europeans who have traveled to the states over the years thought americans are like this after tasting our food.
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Yet another example of who is really running this country. It ain’t us.
Hey at least the maple syrup folks are adapting…
People will ditch expensive sodas for pancake addiction. /h
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But will it work with coffee? Asking for a friend…
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something something fiddle something something while Rome burns something something something
and yes I realize that this is more legend than fact
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That’s a lot of trucks for only a few digital screens. According to the poster that’s only one of three rows of trucks.
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I love the Okefenokee, except for the mosquitoes, it’s a larger version of a lot of the swamps in lowcountry SC, and it was amazing canoing around them, with the cyprus and spanish moss…
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It’s gorgeous… and it’s been a bi-partisan effort to keep this kind of “development” out. The people who live around there know what they have and they really don’t want to see it ruined.
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It’s only fair, as we’re majorly responsible for the climate catastrophes.
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