I’ll make fun of your spandex (made from oil) bike shorts. Your plastic (made from oil) faggoty clip shoes, your plastic (made from oil) helmet with its expanded polystyrene (made from oil) impact liner, whenever I want to.
I absolutely hate bicyclists because of their snotty attitudes, lack of following the laws, (not stopping at stop signs or signals) not yielding right of way according to law, and general feeling of entitlement. Where I work we spend tens of thousands of dollars maintaining bicycle trails and lanes at the expense of motor vehicle lane miles. The money for this comes from, you guessed it, gas taxes that by law are required to be spent only on roads.
I’m hoping for a ballot measure to require all bicycle related construction and maintenance to be taken out of a fund paid for by a tax on bicycles and bicycle parts. I’m pretty sure such a measure would pass by a fairly large margin in California, Oregon, Washington etc...
Why not tax sneakers, baby strollers, dog leashes etc and get the walkers too?