Monday 15th Street Updates: lawsuit, weeklong reprieve (if they follow the rules), rally TODAY at noon. waba.org/2026/03/20/1...

Western carmakers are retreating from EVs just as oil hits $100 a barrel. The parallels with Detroit in the 1980s are striking. They ignored fuel-efficient Japanese cars. Now they’re ignoring Chinese EVs. BYD just unveiled 600-mile range and 250 miles of charge in 5 minutes.

Don’t be fooled. Removing protected bike lanes along 15th St. near the National Mall doesn’t alleviate congestion – it will cause more of it as accidents increase. It’s yet another effort by the federal government to politicize common-sense safety measures in the District.

"No human who has been alive during cherry blossom season ever thinks, ‘What we need is more room for cars to get around.’ It is cyclists and pedestrians that take over, and this is going to make the chaos infinitely worse.”

Infuriating. A stupid thing enacted by stupid people who are too dumb to understand that this will make things worse for them, too bsky.app/profile/51st...

Here, Scotty, let me explain to you the difference between net imports of crude oil and petroleum products, and see if you can figure out the problem: www.eia.gov/energyexplai...

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Allies with representation in Congress, if you're tired of seeing DC treated like this administration's punching bag, write to your members of Congress and ask them to take the Free DC Pledge to protect Home Rule! freedcproject.org/news/congres...

Arguments on revenue are literally the most annoying complaint when it comes to speed cameras. How much revenue would be generated if drivers followed the law, eh?

Ok HR 5525 is up. Rep. Perry from PA is introducing the bill. Rumor has it he holds a personal grudge against DC's traffic laws. Maybe he should consider following our laws instead of repealing them.

Janno Lieber is spilling the damn TEA nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/03/17/m...

Right now, unfolding around us on a global scale, is a rich and unambiguous lesson on the dangers of fossil fuel dependence. The most obvious solution is for the affected countries to reduce their dependence through clean energy. Are you seeing that message in media?

Crafting a parallel between making it harder to vote and safeguarding the actual electoral process is quite a choice. That's like saying Smokey the Bear and an arsonist both care about fire.

Someone at the NYT asked me a couple years ago for an opinion piece on "how to solve the Colorado River water crisis." So I made a nice little writeup on the most obvious answer: charging for water. Once the editorial board saw it, they freaked out & cancelled the piece.

Rank the donut! Learning is good! So is supporting a downright delicious business.

NEW: Mayor Bowser unexpectedly released a report this week assessing whether D.C. should implement New York-style congestion pricing in the city’s downtown core. The publication was as sudden as it was surprising, @maustermuhle.bsky.social reports. What's going on here?

Take note of when media reports assign agency to drivers instead of just saying "car" or "van"

That "one reason"? Automakers shifted their offerings to high margin vehicles for upper income HHs. Please tell me more about your "commitment to affordability" you f'ing wankers. Like, do the folks at GM and Ford even listen to themselves as they speak? You did this! www.reuters.com/business/aut...

Americans drive a lot more than people in other rich countries. If we didn’t drive so much, we wouldn’t die in so many crashes. It’s a simple point, but one that NHTSA, traffic engineers, and many road safety org’s have yet to learn. Me, in Bloomberg 🧵

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Saturday was a beautiful day to show up and #StandUpForScience✊

Not gonna lie -- there's still a good chunk of the public with whom talking about electrification feels like this. Education is a continuous process, and there's never a substitute for butts in seats.

Fascinating new piece by @sipappas.bsky.social looking at the geology behind the geopolitics: 🧪

JFC. Just got the latest @experianautomotive.bsky.social finance report, and it's like a perfect summary of how f'ing insane the automotive sector is right now. "Guys, I wonder if it's good that we have rapidly escalating monthly payments and term lengths on a rapidly depreciating asset?"

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

Stand Up For Science announces Gretchen Goldman, President and CEO of Union of Concerned Scientists (@ucs.org) as a speaker at the Washington D.C. National Day of Action rally on Saturday, March 7th! Visit standupforscience.net/march7 to find a rally near you! #standupforscience #March7DC #rally

This might be the first time that D.C.’s CFO has been directly protested. Someone sent me a photo of a @freedcproject.bsky.social flyer posted outside his office in the Wilson Building today.

None of this spiel at the front about Tesla is correct in this @usatoday.com article on fuel economy ranking. There are no extra credits here! IT'S NOT COMPLIANCE DATA. Gah. Nat'l pubs misrepresenting even the most basic information will never stop bothering me. www.usatoday.com/story/cars/r...

Car Culture ≠ Financial Freedom

The Automobile: The ultimate machine for independence and freedom. No government infringing on my civil rights in MY metal box! Unless I’m trans. Or Black. Or Brown. Or disabled. Or poor. Or an immigrant.

The biggest effect I see from people still spending time on X—which many deny or don't even notice—is how it shifts their perception of what's normal. Such as: Actively anti-trans is speaking like a normal person Objecting to Nazi symbols turns off the working class Epstein knew a bunch of Jews etc

SCIENCE FIGHTERS! Join us in Washington D.C. on March 7th to TAKE BACK OUR SCIENCE! Visit this link to see when and where! fight2win.standupforscience.net/DC-March/ SAVE SCIENCE. PROTECT HEALTH. DEFEND DEMOCRACY.

They still want us to think cars equal freedom. But car DEPENDENCY is the opposite of freedom. Mobility freedom comes from mobility choices. #UrbanTruth

Every New York Times column & Atlantic thinkpiece, every Guardian broadside led us here. Jesse Singal and Ben Ryan and all the others "just asking questions" led us here. Every bit of coverage that's treated us as suspicious outsiders and punching bags helped speed this day. You are responsible.

🧵 In its Endangerment Finding rescission, US EPA chose to ignore the effects of the rule on public health and the environment by refusing to even quantify them or report them in the rule. So I dug into the docket to quantify those costs myself, using EPA's own models.

Automakers aren't caught in the middle of anything -- they're directly culpable. You don't get any sympathy around uncertainty when you explicitly lobbied for the actions causing that uncertainty. FAFO. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

Their opinion side of the business may be total and utter garbage, but WaPo's reporters have still got it. Why are car prices so damn high? It's profit-chasing automakers building a market for the rich over the past decade-plus.

And yet, every day, our most prominent Democratic politicians, scholars, public intellectuals, universities & university leaders, & other civil society organizations continue to use his platform as their primary social media outlet. One cannot help but notice this & draw conclusions.

Please, @nytimes.com, just ask me next time so you get your facts correct. Yes, credits are gone, but THIS TECHNOLOGY IS CREDITED VIA TESTS ALREADY, just not for the full real-world benefit. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/b...

I feel this in my bones.

If you're going to be quoted as an automotive expert, you should at least know that GM and Stellantis have been "wholesale breaking the law" for years so to pretend like these supposed constraints exist is to deny reality. US auto industry is a dead man walking. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/c...

The least significant part of today's endangerment presser, but elevating it as they did really just begs the question: What vehicle in particular pissed Zeldin off? He's going to be sad to learn that stop-start gets credit on fuel economy tests so this won't make much difference in its deployment.

Today, Administrator Zeldin took a chainsaw to the Endangerment Finding, undoing this long-standing, science-based finding on bogus grounds at the expense of our health.

“I don't see any plan, any strategy, any end game,” says Pat Parenteau, a professor of environmental law at the University of Vermont. “I don't see anything from this administration, just fuck everything up as much as you can. You can print that.”

You can repeal an endangerment finding. You can’t repeal the endangerment.

Truly the absolute dumbest shit. I think the only factual statement I heard in this whole rollout was that yes, the endangerment finding was established under President Obama.

The new WaPo is wrong, wrong, wrong in so many ways. Let's count: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

I found some folks @washingtonpost.com should have actually fired. What a bunch of rubes. wapo.st/3ZpW4Nj

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