The EPA estimates that nine million homes in the U.S. have lead pipes.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20665840

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.

  • @givesomefucksEnglish
    -22•5 hours ago

    Oh wow…

    So it is almost as much as we’ve given this year to a foreign country with free higher education and universal healthcare so they can maintain their standard of living while genociding their neighbors…

    Yeah. This is waaaaay better and there’s no issue with this at all. We just have to wait a decade, this isn’t something Biden can speed up by just going around congress, he only does that for important things like supporting genocide.

    • TheTechnician27OPEnglish
      25•5 hours ago

      I don’t support Israel’s genocide in Gaza either or the Biden administration’s ongoing support of it (I think all of that military aid should be going to Ukraine instead, for starters), but you really just shitted up the thread by deciding that reading past the first paragraph was too hard, went off on an unrelated whataboutism tangent, and then when it was pointed out you were wrong, you decided to be a snarky, immature jackass about it instead of just saying “oh, okay”.

      • @givesomefucksEnglish
        -21•5 hours ago

        It’s not unrelated.

        2.6 billion. Even 15 billion sounds like an unimaginably big number.

        But for something of this scale, it’s not enough.

        I was hoping you could do the math, but here it is:

        15 billion divided by 700 million is enough for 24 and almost half a city.

        Do you think that’s enough to fulfil this pledge Biden just made?

        Because if not. If you do realize there is literally zero way this is accomplished…

        How is it uplifting news?

        What if I said Santa was going to get you a pony in a decade? Would you get excited?

        • TheTechnician27OPEnglish
          20•5 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.
          • @givesomefucksEnglish
            -17•5 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

            • @_bcron_English
              13•5 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

              • @givesomefucksEnglish
                -9•4 hours ago

                Biden just announced a deadline.

                One that we have zero chance of meeting…

            • TheTechnician27OPEnglish
              16•5 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.

              • @givesomefucksEnglish
                -10•5 hours ago

                Edit: and you never answered: where on god’s green Earth is 700 million coming from?

                …

                From the article you didn’t read before you posted…

                I even quoted it in my first comment:

                The city of Milwaukee, where Mr. Biden is making the announcement, has 65,000 lead pipes, which the city says will cost an estimated $700 million to remove.

                But with all the insults and just the sheer difficulty of having to explain things to you in a way you can understand, I’m gonna have to tap out

                I’m truly sorry I can’t help anymore, and I hope you find someone with more patience willing to assist you.

                Quick edit:

                Shit. You’re a mod from that animal abuse troll sub…

                I thought I’d blocked all of you already, now it makes sense why this was so difficult

                • TheTechnician27OPEnglish
                  11•4 hours ago

                  Yeah, I didn’t initially recognize the $700 million not because I hadn’t read the article but because my brain genuinely couldn’t reach the conclusion quickly enough that you were actually so mind-numbingly inept to take one city, Milwaukee, and say “oh, okay, I guess we can extrapolate that to every city now” (bearing in mind that actual estimates already exist). I guess the US is just several dozen Milwaukees in a trenchcoat.

                  And yes, mhm, that vegan troll sub. That’s us I guess. Hi.