I don’t think we’ll ever eliminate cars, but we surely can drastically reduce our reliance on them. There is absolutely no reason why - in some communities - cars outnumber the residents. We need to start seriously supporting and investing in mass transit solutions that will lead people to CHOOSE that option, rather than being a means of transportation for the transit dependent. The United States, I’m ashamed to say, is so far behind other modern nations with this. But, no country is doing all that it could to implement environmentally responsible alternatives. We listen to right-wing blowhards talking about how investing in public transit provides an unfair subsidy to those who use it and discriminates against those who don’t. Yet, they fail to acknowledge that the most heavily subsidized form of transportation is the private automobile. Investment of public funds in highway infrastructure outweighs investment in transit exponentially. You really strike a nerve with me on this, but I’m not going to rant anymore since this post was originally about unattractive people. So, I’ll try and tie the two together and say that environmentally irresponsible people are ugly.
I was saying to someone earlier this week that America almost seems determined to design cities in such a way that it makes it necessary to own a car. It'd take decades to change that, by which time I don't think we'll be using petrol/gasoline to power engines anyway.
What we need is either a vast leap forward in battery technology (minimal charging times, and low weight) or a way of getting more energy from less hydrogen (and a way of producing the hydrogen that isn't environmentally dodgy).
Is it normal to be mean to people that aren't attractive?
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I don’t think we’ll ever eliminate cars, but we surely can drastically reduce our reliance on them. There is absolutely no reason why - in some communities - cars outnumber the residents. We need to start seriously supporting and investing in mass transit solutions that will lead people to CHOOSE that option, rather than being a means of transportation for the transit dependent. The United States, I’m ashamed to say, is so far behind other modern nations with this. But, no country is doing all that it could to implement environmentally responsible alternatives. We listen to right-wing blowhards talking about how investing in public transit provides an unfair subsidy to those who use it and discriminates against those who don’t. Yet, they fail to acknowledge that the most heavily subsidized form of transportation is the private automobile. Investment of public funds in highway infrastructure outweighs investment in transit exponentially. You really strike a nerve with me on this, but I’m not going to rant anymore since this post was originally about unattractive people. So, I’ll try and tie the two together and say that environmentally irresponsible people are ugly.
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I was saying to someone earlier this week that America almost seems determined to design cities in such a way that it makes it necessary to own a car. It'd take decades to change that, by which time I don't think we'll be using petrol/gasoline to power engines anyway.
What we need is either a vast leap forward in battery technology (minimal charging times, and low weight) or a way of getting more energy from less hydrogen (and a way of producing the hydrogen that isn't environmentally dodgy).