Me: we should replace the car with a bike as it doesn’t depend on eternally burning a dwindling fuel supply and it improves your mental and physical wellbeing.
Bikes are not feasible where I live. Temperatures don’t go below 40°C until after 10pm for 7 months out of the year. Just going into town for groceries is a 20 minute drive through mountainous terrain, too difficult to pedal through in the scorching heat if you’re not an athlete. Not even an eBike can go further than approx 10 miles in this environment. Heat and all the elevation changes drain the battery rapidly. Bike lanes and public transportation don’t exist here.
So Lemmy can hate on me and my car all you want, but I have no choice but to own one. It’s not right. It needs to change. All in saying is don’t hate people like me because I have no other form of transportation. Hate on the corporations that pollute way more in two seconds than my little Nissan Z ever will in its entire lifespan.
Sure, but most people don’t live where you live. A bike doesn’t need to solve 100% of problems to still be something to push for when it does solve like 90% of them.
Not even joking there, the VAST majority of trips people drive for here are stupidly short distances. Sure for the 1 guy going 200 miles to work each morning probably needs to just fucking move closer to work use a car, but for everyone else a bike would be fine and leave cleaner air.
Then looking at carparks where I live, there is no excuse here. By local geography, essentially none of these people live beyond a reasonable walking or cycling distance, our air quality is much worse because of it and we are one of the fattest towns in the country despite being as flat as the Netherlands. If they did live far away enough to need to drive, they wouldn’t be coming here.
Me: we should replace the car with a bike as it doesn’t depend on eternally burning a dwindling fuel supply and it improves your mental and physical wellbeing.
Bikes are not feasible where I live. Temperatures don’t go below 40°C until after 10pm for 7 months out of the year. Just going into town for groceries is a 20 minute drive through mountainous terrain, too difficult to pedal through in the scorching heat if you’re not an athlete. Not even an eBike can go further than approx 10 miles in this environment. Heat and all the elevation changes drain the battery rapidly. Bike lanes and public transportation don’t exist here.
So Lemmy can hate on me and my car all you want, but I have no choice but to own one. It’s not right. It needs to change. All in saying is don’t hate people like me because I have no other form of transportation. Hate on the corporations that pollute way more in two seconds than my little Nissan Z ever will in its entire lifespan.
Sure, but most people don’t live where you live. A bike doesn’t need to solve 100% of problems to still be something to push for when it does solve like 90% of them.
Not even joking there, the VAST majority of trips people drive for here are stupidly short distances. Sure for the 1 guy going 200 miles to work each morning probably needs to
just fucking move closer to workuse a car, but for everyone else a bike would be fine and leave cleaner air.Then looking at carparks where I live, there is no excuse here. By local geography, essentially none of these people live beyond a reasonable walking or cycling distance, our air quality is much worse because of it and we are one of the fattest towns in the country despite being as flat as the Netherlands. If they did live far away enough to need to drive, they wouldn’t be coming here.