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Lauren Teixeira

@lrntex

Analyst @TheBTI

San Francisco, California Katılım Temmuz 2011
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Lauren Teixeira@lrntex·
Today @danrejto and I tell the infuriating story of California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard, a program that was supposed to decarbonize transportation but ended up forcing CA drivers to pay 18 billion dollars for biofuels that are worse for the climate than fossil fuels (THREAD):
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Lauren Teixeira@lrntex·
Maybe took my article a bit too literally but probably fair to say I lived in this hamster wheel when I was younger. It drove me insane! Now I spend my days thinking about the wonkier points of energy policy, and I am much calmer.
Ideas Guy@nosilverv

Fascinated by this article: the author seems to process life primarily as fodder for her writing: life's secondary to writing — primary. The object of life becomes to have hitherto uncatalogued experiences that the author will then catalogue. A sort of self-designed hamster wheel

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Mike Lee
Mike Lee@BasedMikeLee·
If Americans want to buy fuel made from corn and put it in their car, they should be able to do so But the government shouldn’t force it, subsidize it, or punish those who don’t want it It makes fuel and food more expensive Time to end ethanol tyranny Share if you agree
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lisa@luoser·
AI Psychosis Summit was a movie
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Lauren Teixeira@lrntex·
This is awesome and contains this beautiful process diagram of the Chevron Richmond refinery which we have thanks to CEQA filings. Btw, this helps explain why two refineries in California have converted to biorefineries- the Low Carbon Fuel Standard offers tempting subsidies for renewable diesel and also weakens conventional refinery economics by making petrodiesel less competitive. Refinery business depends on being able to use every part of the pig, so to speak.
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Brian Potter@_brianpotter

The US consumes over 20 million barrels of oil each day. But it doesn't consume it directly. Oil refineries take raw crude and turn it into various products - gasoline, diesel, jet fuel - that we can use. This week, I look at how oil refineries work. construction-physics.com/p/how-an-oil-r…

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Dan Rejto 🇺🇸🌎🍴@danrejto·
New data: California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard is now adding about 20¢/gallon to fuel prices, its highest impact yet. The program largely pushes refiners toward more biofuels, but at a growing cost to drivers and with limited environmental benefit.
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Lauren Teixeira@lrntex·
Goated article. I would add that you could write almost exactly the same article about corn. Corn isn't people, it doesn't need anti-discrimination legislation or public subsidies, but that is the policy regime we have because of sentimental feelings.
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nxthompson@nxthompson·
The stats here are kind of remarkable. BART's new fare gates have led to a 1,000-hour decline in clean up time; 41% drop in crime; and $10 million increase in projected revenue. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/…
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Deric Tilson@econpragmatist·
I wanted to write something pithy, but that would detract from @knowledgeprob's post. If you care about electricity or the grid, you should move this to the front of your reading list. You won't regret it. link below
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Lauren Teixeira@lrntex·
Favorite jargon from a conference on the AI energy bottleneck I just attended: -"Standing up a shell" (constructing a data center site sans compute) -"CoLo" (colocated) -"powered land" (land with an interconnection agreement) -"land bros" (guys who are developing powered land)
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Lauren Teixeira@lrntex·
i think that a candidate who ran on a platform of restoring pre-covid social norms - obey dog leashing laws, drive like a not insane person, don't listen to music without headphones on public transit - could be very successful. call it the "we live in a society" party.
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Matthew Zeitlin
Matthew Zeitlin@MattZeitlin·
i'm not a bioethicist studying human-dog relations, i'm just a guy, but there's no "arms race" going on. dog owners knowingly and blatantly violate long settled, clearly established norms and formal rules and people aren't happy about it
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robert@rfhirschfeld·
Ecomodernists, radical environmentalists, fiscal conservatives, agrarian nationalists—even Matt Yglesias—all agree that ethanol & the RFS are terrible policy. It’s a price support program for a favored class propped up by Midwest politicians & The Farm Bureau/Corn Growers Assoc.
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Ryan Cummings
Ryan Cummings@weakinstrument·
Excellent stuff from Lauren here. California gasoline markets are misunderstood and are made into too much of a boogeyman by people. But the LCFS deserves its disdain. It adds 17c/gal at the pump for drivers w/o delivering any meaningful benefits. Time for CA to get rid of it.
Lauren Teixeira@lrntex

Today @danrejto and I present the next installment in our ongoing series on the Low Carbon Fuel Standard, California's biofuel boondoggle. Last time, we established that the LCFS forces drivers to subsidize deforestation via environmentally dubious crop-based biofuels. This time, we explain an equally infuriating wrinkle to the program: it turns out a lot of the biofuel CA forces drivers to shell out for - $2 billion in the past year alone - would have been produced anyway under federal mandate. THREAD:

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Lauren Teixeira@lrntex·
This is the nasty paradox of the LCFS. When the program fails to drive new production, it merely forces drivers to pay extra for biofuels that have already done their damage. When it succeeds, it forces drivers to pay to make emissions worse. Either way, the program is desperately in need of reform. We suggest imposing an additionality requirement as a first step.
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Lauren Teixeira@lrntex·
The situation with ethanol is even worse--approximately 0% credited under the LCFS is additional. This is because there is an effective ceiling on how much ethanol can be blended into the gasoline supply—only flex-fuel vehicles can use blends above E15, and they make up a small fraction of the fleet. Therefore, there is no reason that the quantity of ethanol consumed in the US should be above the quantity mandated by the RFS, even if there were very lavish additional subsidies. This is borne out by the data, as shown below.
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Lauren Teixeira@lrntex·
Today @danrejto and I present the next installment in our ongoing series on the Low Carbon Fuel Standard, California's biofuel boondoggle. Last time, we established that the LCFS forces drivers to subsidize deforestation via environmentally dubious crop-based biofuels. This time, we explain an equally infuriating wrinkle to the program: it turns out a lot of the biofuel CA forces drivers to shell out for - $2 billion in the past year alone - would have been produced anyway under federal mandate. THREAD:
Breakthrough@TheBTI

California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard program has a paradox: when it fails to incentivize new biofuels, it just overcharges drivers. When it succeeds, it pays to make emissions worse. New from @danrejto and @lrntex: breakthroughjournal.org/p/paying-extra…

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