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Jan 9
Today @danrejto and I tell the infuriating story of California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard, a program that was supposed to decarbonize transportation but ended up forcing CA drivers to pay 18 billion dollars for biofuels that are worse for the climate than fossil fuels (THREAD):
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Jun 12
90% of Chengdu's economy is people selling coffee, cocktails and hotpot to each other
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Jun 11
To clarify: I lived in China for years before Covid and I was fully expecting to be quizzed within my first hour of coming back about why I am not married. So it was a pleasant surprise it took 9 days!
Jun 11
Genuinely impressed that I was in China 9 days before a taxi driver asked me my age and why I don’t have a husband
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Jun 11
Genuinely impressed that I was in China 9 days before a taxi driver asked me my age and why I don’t have a husband
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Jun 8
I wonder what those Asian Americans who were really mad about cultural appropriation in the 2010s make of the fact that one of Chinese peoples’ absolutely favorite vacation activities is to get dressed up like ethnic minorities
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Jun 5
Nothing like the Chinese countryside B&B experience. Owner is a peasant completely indifferent to the spectacular landscape who just wants to know the prices of various items in US. Says you can walk there but maybe not over there because of the pack of free roaming dogs.
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Jun 5
There is someone else from California here; owner asked if I could tell that he was my 老乡 and….honestly yes
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Jun 4
Something I would like to know is why in the year 2026 the Chinese Communist Party has still not deployed its considerable propagandistic resources toward inculcating a norm of not watching short form video on public transport without headphones
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Jun 2
Authentic b2b SaaS office in the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone
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May 14
Maybe took my article a bit too
literally but probably fair to say I lived in this hamster wheel when I was younger. It drove me insane! Now I spend my days thinking about the wonkier points of energy policy, and I am much calmer.
May 14
Fascinated by this article: the author seems to process life primarily as fodder for her writing: life's secondary to writing — primary. The object of life becomes to have hitherto uncatalogued experiences that the author will then catalogue. A sort of self-designed hamster wheel
ALT https://lrntex.substack.com/p/the-truth-about-sf-vs-nyc-revealed
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Lauren Teixeira retweeted
Apr 30
If Americans want to buy fuel made from corn and put it in their car, they should be able to do so
But the government shouldn’t force it, subsidize it, or punish those who don’t want it
It makes fuel and food more expensive
Time to end ethanol tyranny
Share if you agree
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Apr 30
This is awesome and contains this beautiful process diagram of the Chevron Richmond refinery which we have thanks to CEQA filings.
Btw, this helps explain why two refineries in California have converted to biorefineries- the Low Carbon Fuel Standard offers tempting subsidies for renewable diesel and also weakens conventional refinery economics by making petrodiesel less competitive.
Refinery business depends on being able to use every part of the pig, so to speak.
Apr 30
The US consumes over 20 million barrels of oil each day.
But it doesn't consume it directly. Oil refineries take raw crude and turn it into various products - gasoline, diesel, jet fuel - that we can use.
This week, I look at how oil refineries work. construction-physics.com/p/h…
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Apr 29
true story: once in blue danube cafe (next to green apple books) I interacted with a guy performatively voting. he was puzzling over his paper ballot with a whole cup of pencils and he asked me for my advice on down ballot candidates.
Apr 29
Best cafes in sf for reading performatively?
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Apr 28
What does Tom Steyer think the utilities in the rest of the US are? What does he think munis are? Does he think they are NOT MONOPOLIES??
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Lauren Teixeira retweeted
Apr 23
New data: California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard is now adding about 20¢/gallon to fuel prices, its highest impact yet.
The program largely pushes refiners toward more biofuels, but at a growing cost to drivers and with limited environmental benefit.
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