I wish I had an automobile. Sadly, I only have a motor-vehicle.
I like this kind of thinking! In California such dynamic thinking on the part of the California High Speed Rail Authority is leading to the construction of the world’s most expensive bike trail!
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When I was in college in the 70’s I knew a guy who was in pre-law. His goal was to be an environmental lawyer. He seriously believed that nobody should be able to go anywhere they could not walk to. In his mind, the vast majority of people would live their lives within 30 miles of where they were born. He also believed it was immoral for people in snow country to have fresh vegetables and fruit in the winter. If you couldn’t grow it yourself, you could not have it. IMHO it seems that everything that has happened since is part of a slow march toward this kind of world.
I heard conservative Shaun Thompson on his radio show go on about how oil is NOT a fossil fuel, but rather a renewable by the earth itself. I’d heard this before but not for a long time.
Colorado is long past salvation and redemption IMHO.
Funny, I don’t see car or oil companies complaining about the “transition” from fossil fuels to windmills. I suppose they know something and are tossing the gas/oil dependent middle class under the bus (pun intended)
My neighbor’s new chevy gasoline pick-up gets 10 mpg. The only change from the 70s is worse in that regard.
With the government sponsored deterioration of our roads and highways, do not buy a vehicle that sits low.
Justified? At least back then, you could tell the difference between makes, models and years. Used to be able to tell what kind of car pulled up behind you in the rearview mirror at night. Today, just belly-button cars. Everyone looks the same. Even saw a commercial for one of the SUVs. A line of silver SUVs parked in the pick-up line at an elementary school. One of the SUVs in the middle of the line was black. The voice over said their SUV stands out in a crowd. Haha, they had to change the color so the viewer would notice which one they were talking about.
Car designers suck. After they line all the leftist political leaders and social media oligarchs against the wall to be shot, car designers should be next....
“In its simplest form, the theory is that carbon present in the magma beneath the crust reacts with hydrogen to form methane as well as a raft of other mainly alkane hydrocarbons. The reactions are more complicated than this, with several intermediate stages. Particular mineral rocks such as granite and other silicon based rocks act as catalysts, which speed up the reaction without actually becoming involved or consumed in the process.
Experiments have shown that under extreme conditions of heat and pressure it is possible to convert iron oxide, calcium carbonate and water into methane, with hydrocarbons containing up to 10 carbon atoms being produced by Russian scientists last century and confirmed in recent US experiments. The absence of large quantities of free gaseous oxygen in the magma prevents the hydrocarbons from burning and therefore forming the lower energy state molecule carbon dioxide. The conditions present in the Earth’s mantle would easily be sufficient for these small hydrocarbon chains to polymerise into the longer chain molecules found in crude oil.”
http://viewzone.com/abioticoilx.html
In the early 1970s my uncle was tasked by the Governor of Colorado to be the handler for the (new) EPA representatives who were trying to implement environmental rules for highway building. They’d be on a construction site, and my uncle would put his arm around the guy, then point to something else, saying, “How about that! Let’s go see what’s going on over there...” Then he’d drive the guy back to the airport and make sure got on a plane.
The national highway system could not be built today.
There’s nothing wrong with developing walkable cities and walkable towns and walkable neighborhoods.
I actually think that’s an awesome thing, to be able to walk to school, to work, to a restaurant, to a grocery store, to the coffee shop, to a bookstore.
At the same time, looking down on those who drive cars, seeing them as “part of the problem,” is woke, virtue signaling garbage.
Riding a bus, subway or interurban is like taking a walk in southside Chicago after dark if your skin is light colored.
Ugh... this half-assed non-sense again. At some point expanding highways gets to the point of diminishing returns, once that point is reached other options must be considered.
Pet peeves about the anti-car non-sense, if you are going to remove the ability to park cars, the ability for those who work and live in the area to get their daily needs and get to and from work must be preserved. Put bluntly before blocking roads, and removing parking lots, make sure the public transportation is actually useful.