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If our next president wanted to be really popular, he’d run on the platform of more parking. As we all know, parking is the only thing most Americans really care about.

Aging Wheels:The CitiCar is an Electric Cheese Wedge From the 70’s

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The CitiCar was the most produced electric car in America after World War II until the Telsa Model S. The car, with a top speed of 38 MPH with entirely electro-mechanical, and lacked any control electronics.
Complete with a brushed DC motor and three-speed contactor control system that made a large clunk between "gears", that worked by using a resistor and two batteries for low speed, two batteries and no resistor for mid-speed and all six for high-speed.

Trump’s EPA Can’t Erase Interstate Smog Rules | InsideClimate News

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Court: Trump’s EPA Can’t Erase Interstate Smog Rules | InsideClimate News

A federal appeals court panel on Tuesday struck down a 2018 Trump administration rule that had relieved states of their obligation to curb air pollution that causes smog in downwind states hundreds of miles away.

The ruling requires the Environmental Protection Agency to draw up a new plan for addressing the nation's long-standing problems with ground-level ozone, or smog, to meet the requirements of the Clean Air Act. It's a task that the Trump administration has made far more difficult by rolling back the restrictions on coal power plant pollution in the Clean Power Plan, the Obama administration's signature policy on climate change.

How Much Money Do Parking Lots Actually Make? | MEL Magazine

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How Much Money Do Parking Lots Actually Make? | MEL Magazine

Paid parking lots: Those slabs of asphalt in the middle of cities with narrow spaces and often extortionate rates are pretty much a necessary evil if you own a car and spend any time in the city. But what’s their side of it like? Why even run a parking lot on a piece of urban land instead of building, like, an actual building? Are they goldmines, or what? What are their costs like?

Alongside Keith Bawolek, a real-estate expert who says he’s been involved in over a billion dollars in parking lot deals all over the country (and, we imagine, has a nice parking spot for himself), we’re going to try and find the perfect space to explain.