Fuel inefficiency
Marketplace
Marketplace
4.6 • 8.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Vehicle fuel efficiency requirements, also known as Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards, were enacted in response to the 1970s oil embargo. But CAFE regulations have been buffeted by energy politics since that time. Once in office, President-elect Donald Trump is expected to carry on that tradition. Also in this episode: Homeowners affected by natural disasters have mortgage relief options, employers in expensive areas invest in manufactured housing and tech giants (still) dominate the stock market.
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| 0:00.0 | On the program today, the magnificent seven, the stocks, not the movie, housing, two, and the |
| 0:09.1 | fires. From American public media, this is Marketplace. |
| 0:19.4 | In Los Angeles, I'm Kyle Rizzol Monday, today the 13th of January. |
| 0:28.6 | Good as always to have you along, everybody. |
| 0:31.2 | We are still on Firewatch here in Los Angeles. |
| 0:34.3 | Red flag warning is the technical term as the two biggest fires, |
| 0:37.9 | Palisades and Eaton, sit at various degrees of containment with more wind on the way. |
| 0:43.5 | More than two dozen dead so far, 12,000 structures destroyed tens of thousands of people displaced. |
| 0:49.9 | There has, as you have been seeing, monumental effort for some 14,000 of firefighters using all the tools at their disposal. |
| 0:58.5 | Technology is and will be in the future among those tools. |
| 1:02.7 | Kate Dargan Marquist is Senior Wildfire Advisor at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. |
| 1:07.2 | Kate, thanks for joining us. |
| 1:08.4 | Thank you, Kai. |
| 1:09.4 | You know, so we were chatting just before we |
| 1:11.1 | turned on the microphones and you said you do a lot of work now on the future of fire. And before we |
| 1:16.6 | get there, I want to talk about the right now of fire and what technology is out there that can |
| 1:23.7 | help us figure out what's happening on fires, sort of even before they start. |
| 1:28.7 | Right. Even before they start. So you were thinking, how can we predict the when and where a fire? |
| 1:35.5 | How can we predict it and see it? And, I mean, there must be AI powered cameras and all of that. |
| 1:40.1 | Well, let's start off then with the moment that the fires do start. We have put to work |
| 1:45.1 | these intelligent cameras that are mounted on mountaintops, repeater sites, and we see the smoke |
| 1:52.8 | columns rising from those cameras. We do an image assessment, a remote sensing assessment. |
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