Europe’s EV sales surge just hit 51% – and oil is the reason why EV sales in Europe jumped 51% in March amid rising oil prices, with over 224,000 cars sold and energy security driving the shift.

Looks like a lot of demand and (mobile) battery capacity comes on line.

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What is project demand from data centers? Might they not start to drive up electricity prices, especially mid-day prices that most correlate with solar production?

Is there no role for greater grid integration in smoothing solar demand between sunny and cloudy places?

Liquor Cabinet!!!! Why did I not come up with that!!!

"Amazon"

These arguments were made in the context of trade liberalization, the minimum wage, indifference to unions, and antitrust policy (with narrow consumer-welfare scoring).

I came of age when the consensus view (that I shared) was make the markets as efficient as possible and then do redistribution on the back end to make everyone better off. Good economics; terrible political economy. The pre-tax "winners" just used their new wealth to thwart redistribution.

Lee Harvey Oswald arrested after the gun he was carrying fired a bullet that killed president Kennedy.

Completely independent of it's original fan base, it appears to be a pretty economical drone hunter.

If any firm should be capable of conducting their own debt auction...

I assume at the next Judiciary Committee oversight hearing he will take a fifth.

It's funny that he attributes some god-like prescient ability to AI. AI is impressive for doing grad student level work quickly, it's not (yet) a super intelligence.

Op-Ed: Reconnect and Automate Ballard to West Seattle Rail to Save ST3 Sound Transit can halve the cost of light rail to Ballard and West Seattle by building them as a connected automated light rail line with slimmer stations, according to two transit experts who have la...

I have always been perplexed by the lack of automated transit in the US. I thought it might be some federal regulation, similar to passenger rail car robustness, but we do it for airport people movers. Maybe because transit unions in coalitions to build transit?

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Props on the title.

a man is sitting in a dark room with the words who run bartertown written on the bottom ALT: a man is sitting in a dark room with the words who run bartertown written on the bottom

Iran War Live Updates: Oil Prices Rise as Iran Vows Retaliation for Cargo Ship Attack www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

This woman is a goddamn hero! Life is dull and I will not abide this free moment of glee being lumped in with "Flordia Man" posts.

Optimus Prime sounds like an as-yet-unproven math conjecture.

In Tampa Florida, the cooling water from power plant has become a refuge for manatees in winter. It's a legit local amenity.

A Breakdown of Five Days of Secret Supreme Court Memos

I fear the culture war cases are a bit of theater to distract us while the Federalist society judges quietly protect the incumbent wealthy industrialists that installed them.

A Breakdown of Five Days of Secret Supreme Court Memos www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

This is of course incredibly regressive, and inexcusable for funding a stupid war of choice, but at some point we will have to tackle the deficit. The left should probably be prepared to jettison in-kind energy transfers that are economically inefficient and environmentally harmful.

Kim Jong-un’s Daughter Drives a Tank, and Succession Talk Accelerates

I hope she was listening to Katy Perry while nursing a margarita at the same time.

Kim Jong-un’s Daughter Drives a Tank, and Succession Talk Accelerates www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/w...

Pentagon Weighs Using Anti-Drone Lasers in Washington Airspace

I would think Iran would happily pay to defend Hegseth his gross incompetence in prosecuting the war.

Pentagon Weighs Using Anti-Drone Lasers in Washington Airspace www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/u...

The good news is that the Trump administration has completely shredded US credibility, no one would trust them to honor the security guarantee (while ignoring the security guarantee we already gave Ukraine to abandon its nukes).

Let me take this opportunity to point out that 40+ percent of closed murder cases are like this. An argument escalates and then some idiot pulls out a gun. Everyone thinks they're the good guy with the gun and then things get heated...

I struggle to come up with a plausible explanation for relative costs. Why is underground DC so cheap? Maybe the height reduces load and thus narrower columns? But then above ground is cheap too? How are NYC and BOS bottom third? Seismic issues could explain SF, Sea, Portland, but then LA is cheap?

punishment for enemies of the regime

Where the 5 branch where the Bayesian takes 5 hours out of their day to yell at "frequentists" for not explicitly stating their priors?

Didn't realize Atlanta was a college town.

A beneficiary of Trump's First administration tariffs, now suffering from a tax on inputs?

Didn't have the stomach for that acronym?