OPINION: The ACA and healthcare reform: what role, when?
By Jay BrockGUEST COLUMNIST
In this presidential election year, when there is significant discontent with our health insurance system—unaffordable healthcare is second only to inflation of the issues most voters want the candidates to talk about, and 3 out of 4 Americans across the country worry about being able to pay their medical bills if they get sick—it looks like both Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are struggling on how best to resolve the most important problems that have plagued our current system for decades.
Unaffordable costs; staggering numbers of dollars ($600 billion each year – see here and here and here) wasted on needless administrative costs; the control, via prior authorizations, outright denials of care,.
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Building first housed a church and later was a community gathering place for Black citizens during segregation.
The building at 1103 Winchester Street has been an important gathering place for Black residents of the Fredericksburg area since the late 1800s—as a church, a “canteen” for “colored children,” and a USO site for Black soldiers.
BooksAnd Culture
This week’s reviews include the interesting history of American bookstores in Evan Friss’s “The Bookshop” and the story of “The Titanic of the South” in Patti Callahan’s “Surviving Savannah.”
Sunday Books and Culture is edited by Vanessa Sekinger
by Evan Friss
Opinion
How long does it take for an electric vehicle (EV) to have a smaller carbon footprint than a gasoline-powered vehicle?
As with most complex issues, the answer is: It depends.
Currently, the energy to produce the battery causes the average initial EV carbon footprint to be twice.
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ENVIRONMENTAL CENTS: How Does the Carbon Footprint of Electric Cars Compare to Gasoline-Powered Cars?
How long does it take for an electric vehicle (EV) to have a smaller carbon footprint than a gasoline-powered vehicle?
As with most complex issues, the answer is: It depends.
Currently, the energy to produce the battery causes the average initial EV carbon footprint to be twice that of a gasoline vehicle. (The actual difference depends upon the battery size).
This value has decreased over the last decade due to productivity increases in battery production and should further decrease due to improvements in battery chemistry.
Most EVs produced in the U.S. today have a Lithium-ion battery made with lithium, cobalt and nickel. Lithium and nickel are mined in many U.S.-allied countries, but 73% of the world’s nickel is mined in China,.
