Marc J. Dunkelman

They're afraid that a black family is going to move in or a poor family is going to move into the apartments.

So they say, I think that I once saw a bald eagle.

Or they are afraid that the train line is going to come and bifurcate their little neighborhood.

So they create some sort of – I think this home is historic or I think that this is actually a brownfield, that there was oil.

They create all sorts of barriers such that now –

We can't build the things that we know that we need.

Now, between these two extremes of allowing one like powerful dude to make the choices like unabated and on this other end, allowing anyone with objection to stop anything, it's gotta be some sort of process that allows everyone to have a voice and no one to have a veto.

I don't know exactly how that would work, right?

That's what I'm working on now.

I'm trying to figure out, like, how do corporations do this?

Now, I was looking at the NEVI program at one point, and someone told me this story.

It was sort of interesting.

I was thinking about it just as a private sector example.

When they were doing the NEVI program, Elon Musk had –

the supercharger program for Tesla.

And already people were buying Teslas, not only because they liked Teslas, but because if you bought a Tesla, there were already lots of superchargers all over the country.

And the people who had, inside Tesla, who had the supercharger program, like they were running those, were like, we could license this to Ford and to the other companies, and we could get some of that $7.5 billion, and that would significantly augment the overall size of the EV market.

Maybe we should do it.

The people inside Tesla who were selling Tesla cars were horrified that anyone would suggest it because, well, that was what they were selling their cars with, right?

It was an advantage.