The binding constraint on building anything in America is permitting and litigation, not money.
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Brian Potter Structural engineer and writer Political costs and civic opposition will often make a technology unviable regardless of how the dollars and cents add up. Why we stopped building subways cheaplyworksinprogress.news · 28 May 2025All korrents from this piece
Their wordsPolitical costs and civic opposition will often make a technology unviable regardless of how the dollars and cents add up.
John H. Cochrane Economist at the Hoover Institution Endless lawsuits, cost-exploding contracting requirements, decades to get permits, and more bedevil any attempt to invest here. Tariffs, saving, and investmentgrumpy-economist.com · 14 Apr 2025All korrents from this piece
Their wordsEndless lawsuits, cost-exploding contracting requirements, decades to get permits, and more bedevil any attempt to invest here.
Casey Handmer Physicist, formerly at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Yet solar development is hopelessly snarled by dozens of different development regulations which begin with the assumption that it will permanently and severely harm the environment unless proven otherwise, at exhaustive length. Permitting Reform Or Deathcaseyhandmer.wordpress.com · 10 Nov 2023All korrents from this piece
Their wordsYet solar development is hopelessly snarled by dozens of different development regulations which begin with the assumption that it will permanently and severely harm the environment unless proven otherwise, at exhaustive length.