the cameras can commit errors when it comes to actually ticketing the right offenders. this can be a problem for drivers but the windfall for enforcers. although the intention behind buttigieg s new policies to create safer roads, speed cameras will likely be better at generating large amounts of cash for local governments. new york city councilman backing up telling tucker carlson that during mayor de blasio s term, the number of speed cameras went up from 22 about 1,400 and yet the streets are deadlier than ever. if you look at the program in terms of being a revenue generator or indirect tax on cars, the program was actually wildly successful. $250 million a year generated by our cameras right now. $25,000 an hour. that s actually more than the entire revenue generated by the city of south bend when mayor pete was in charge.
Despite major concerns about climate change, the impact of superstorms, and rising sea levels, reelection politics, and increasing gas prices have killed off the multi-state effort to combat the effects of climate change in New England.
interest of the residents of florida, visitors and the businesses. we saw that during covid. i talked to a logistics expert. he said short run this could only save maybe at most 5% of goods that are headed to the united states for this holiday season. short run, won t solve the problem that the biden administration needed to work on this 150 days ago, even longer than that. not 15 days ago. longer run, this could one, help save the eastern passover season coming in this spring in terms of goods coming in the united states but could be a good economic opportunity for florida. you d have to focus on larger, deeper water ports, rerouting railroad capacity, building more warehouses in the state and more trucking terminal capacity. huge revenue generator for the
they are not a revenue generator. they are not contributing to growth. they are the ones saying slow down. they are the ones saying wait a minute. we need to consider how this is it affecting x, y, or z. and so, they are always going to be second tier. they re never going to be prioritized. but i would also argue in addition to being underresourced and not nearly enough people hired, you also have to empower the people you hire because when they like to brag about the 35,000 or 40,000 people they ve hired to work on safety which, by the way, many are contractors. they i was one of those people. and i was never empowered to take my team s ideas and solutions many of the same types of things that ms. haugen talked about today and actually get those approved by the higher-ups. and so, it s it s both that they re underresourced and that they re not empowered to be to make the ultimate decisions that, at the end of the day, protect their not just their growth and their profit. l
briefly, if google did make a decision to not operate in russia because of this, if they pulled out of russia in the way they pulled out of china, particularly if russia is going to say you have to have employees here in order to operate here, and, by the way, we ll threaten to arrest them whenever you don t do what we want, if they chose to pull out of russia, would it cost them a lot of money? is russia a big revenue generator for them? so they don t disclose their revenue in russia. there are estimates that the country, from what i ve seen, google s primarily a digital advertising company. russia is a little under $4 billion in total advertising spend to give you a sense of small fragment of what google is earning. youtube alone just in one quarter made $7 billion. and, you know, but youtube is a really interesting phenomenon where navalny called it his beloved youtube. he and a lot of other opposition figures and dissidents in russia have used youtube where the state media has