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Biden announces 10-year deadline to remove all lead pipes nationwide (www.cbsnews.com)

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President Biden on Tuesday announced $2.6 billion in funding to replace all lead pipes in the United States as part of a new EPA rule that will require lead pipes to be identified and replaced within 10 years using the new funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act.

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[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 27 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

I was hoping you could do the math

Really fucking projecting here when you can't even read, aren't we? 💀 I swear Redditor-types have some kind of allergy to just admitting when they're wrong about something and moving along with their day.

Where are you getting 700 million from? (edit: oh my god, they were taking the figure from Milwaukee, namely taking one city and extrapolating it to be the amount that it will cost per city. I didn't even realize this because it was so fucking stupid.)
15 bil / 700 mil is 21.4, not 24 and almost half. But I'm the one who can't do math I guess.
"Even 15 billion sounds like an unimaginably big number"? No it doesn't?? I'm aware that this represents a small fraction of the US' annual budget. Maybe you're projecting again?
"Do you think that’s enough to fulfil this pledge Biden just made?" No? Because I literally just cited the figure of $20 to $30 billion required to fix this. Maybe the math is hard for you, so I'll explain that $20 billion is actually more than $15 billion.
"What if I said Santa was going to get you a pony in a decade? Would you get excited?" Ah yes, making huge strides toward eliminating a problem and pledging to continue to do so is totally comparable to this. Holy hell.

[+] givesomefucks@lemmy.world -22 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

So ..

You understand there's no way this will actually be accomplished?

But you think it's uplifting the American public is being lied to a month before the election with a promise that has 0% chance of coming true?

You do you homie.

But at 700 million a city... Even 70 billion isn't enough.

I'm sorry I couldn't help you understand this but it's obviously not going to work

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 18 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Oh, I think I understand now: you think that $15 billion is all there is and ever can be because you don't understand that "a decade" is 10 years and consequently that the EPA has time to get more funding for this over a period of – again – 10 years.

Since I know reading is hard for you, here's something to enhance your comprehension of that $15 billion figure: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/so_far

Edit: and you never answered: where on god's green Earth is 700 million coming from? Milwaukee? Because that's one city, and cities have different amounts of lead pipes.

[-] _bcron_@lemmy.world 15 points 10 hours ago

But you think it’s uplifting the American public is being lied to a month before the election with a promise that has 0% chance of coming true?

Fiscal Year 2025 started October 1st, Congress approved a stop gap so they can continue appropriations. You think a president shouldn't announce anything or do anything in the months leading up to an election?

Also, it's lead pipes. We don't use them anymore. Every pipe replaced is a step forward. Biden just announced a deadline.

They've been consistently disbursing funds for this and this time is no different. Here's last May's news : https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/biden-harris-administration-announces-3-billion-lead-pipe-replacement-advance-safe

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