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People want to visit family, go interesting places and live their lives. Any solution that requires people to live like it's the 1500s is probably a nonstarter
by vorpalhex 3y ago
People want to visit family, go interesting places and live their lives.
Any solution that requires people to live like it's the 1500s is probably a nonstarter.
- makapuf 3y agoAgreed, especially if those people are my grand grandchildren, its my responsibility. And if I need to live in the 70s for some aspects of my life well so be it. I don't want future generations role-playing Fallout. So I try my best to reduce the emissions. Bike, have less and smaller cars. Its not the middle ages and you still can have a quality life.
- frumper 3y agoPeople took a lot of road trips in the 70s...probably in a fairly inefficient station wagon.
- makapuf 3y agoExactly my point, it was not the middle ages, and yet: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/trfvolusm227nfwa https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/trfvolusm227nfwa (better if those are done is less polluting vehicles) and in the country of cars, other countries were not living on dirt roads
- ryneandal 3y agoBesides, modern engines get pretty incredible gas efficiency on the highway. A lot of the minivans these days run a 10-speed automatic with a well-tuned V6, netting nearly 300bhp and pushing 30 mpg on the Interstate. The occasional family road trip shouldn't be a cause for disdain, families with children shouldn't be shunned for wanting to travel and enjoy the various things their region has to offer.
- knowledge-clay 3y ago80% of people in manhattan have no personal vehicle and I would not say they are "living like it's the 1500s". The problem is that most of America has car-dependent infrastructure.