Or maybe just update the system to match the new realities of a 50+-state America?

"Every idea of proportion and every rule of fair representation conspire to condemn a principle, which gives to Rhode Island an equal weight in the scale of power with Massachusetts, or Connecticut, or New York; and to Deleware an equal voice in the national deliberations with Pennsylvania, or Virginia, or North Carolina. Its operation contradicts the fundamental maxim of republican government, which requires that the sense of the majority should prevail. Sophistry may reply, that sovereigns are equal, and that a majority of the votes of the States will be a majority of confederated America. But this kind of logical legerdemain will never counteract the plain suggestions of justice and common-sense. It may happen that this majority of States is a small minority of the people of America; and two thirds of the people of America could not long be persuaded, upon the credit of artificial distinctions and syllogistic subtleties, to submit their interests to the management and disposal of one third. The larger States would after a while revolt from the idea of receiving the law from the smaller. To acquiesce in such a privation of their due importance in the political scale, would be not merely to be insensible to the love of power, but even to sacrifice the desire of equality. It is neither rational to expect the first, nor just to require the last. The smaller States, considering how peculiarly their safety and welfare depend on union, ought readily to renounce a pretension which, if not relinquished, would prove fatal to its duration."

What's your boring setup?

Sending it to Ricks ))

But I would check it meticulously at the top, middle, and bottom on every cylinder, in two axis, before bolting it together. Trust, but verify.

You're leaving out those of us with loyalty to Thompson's Punjana, otherwise, entirely accurate.

Principality of Sealand?

1,477 results, just edging out Michigan (see my earlier comment).

A Citicar might work well for you, although they're all a bit old now.

Apparently the Tazzari Zero [1] is available in the US, otherwise I'm unsure what else is available, and how electric vehicles interact with the US import rules

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tazzari_Zero

Confusion ensues when you are 'remote first' and also manufacturing the latest in vertical lathes in your multi-dozen square foot shed

Is there any data on how much of private jet usage is for urgent medical requirements, government contracted transport and transporting specialist workers quickly? Maybe this report is taking private to not include that usage, but I can't find it.

I'm sure that data exists, but the first two are almost by definition "not private jet" even if they use small jets. US Customs flies various fixed wing assets that are small but are not "private": https://www.cbp.gov/border-security/air-sea/aircraft-and-mar...

Specialist workers quickly is also going to be a smallish amount, though I'm sure there are some companies that have a corporate jet that can be used for it; most will just pay whatever exorbitant cost to get the tech on the next flight.

If you wanted to dig into it the FAA registration databases would probably be the place to start.

Perhaps a used battery purchase scheme would be a good solution? There is some value to the used batteries, if the city paid a premium over that, the problem would most likely decrease significantly. By paying more per kilo for the larger batteries (which pose the greatest risk of injury), city workers would be much safer. The city could even create a market for the recycled Lithium by requiring its use in equipment supplied to the city

I think that’s a great idea but speaking from personal experience with family and friends, the biggest obstacle seems to be effort. Especially for sufficiently well-off individuals, it isn’t financial motivation but rather having clear, easily accessible, and widely known alternatives that require minimum extra effort or travel that would probably do more to alleviate situation.

I would like to think that the well off would behave in a manner similar to how people in Germany who can't be bothered taking their bottles back for pfand do: They leave them beside the bin where people who want to can collect them and cash them in

If you want some entertainment, look up the Jones Act fleet. I believe the biggest and most modern vessel in it is actually a foreign vessel that the US government seized from criminals and auctioned off.

In jan 2022, there were only 99 ships merchant ships eligible under the Jones Act, under a quarter of them are container ships. Over half are tanker ships. Then we have a few general goods ships, and a few roll-on roll-off ships. That is it!

Also the jones act not only requires the vessel to be US Flagged, but it must also be wholely owned by citizens of the united states, and either be US built or one of the following exceptions:

(i) was captured in war by citizens of the United States and lawfully condemned as prize;

(ii)was adjudged to be forfeited for a breach of the laws of the United States; or

(iii)qualifies as a wrecked vessel under section 12107 of this title;

The net result is that nearly half the US Flagged merchant fleet is not even Jones Act Eligible. Which seems pretty absurd.