Yeah, and you could get much better results if we would agree on taxing the boomers for their irresponsible car overuse. My rich boomer parent bought a new car

Yeah, and you could get much better results if we would agree on taxing the boomers for their irresponsible car overuse. My rich boomer parent bought a new car right before going into retirement, and now she burns even more petrol than she used to burn irresponsibly before retirement. Previously there were a lot of excuses around needing it for work related stuff, which was complete bullshit of course but now she will burn petrol to go on holidays for 3-4 days with in general at least 1000km roundtrip. The worst part is that she has the time/flexibility and also money to take the train (there even is a serious reduction card for seniors). But she doesn't. Because she can. Because the car doesn't look expensive enough. Seriously it's really needed to tax the boomer to death on that front at least, they already own all the valuable real estate we can't let them get away with burning more of our future. It won't happen because they hold all the political power thanks to their numerical majority (especially among voters). Cars, like many current problems, are a boomer related/created problem. If you want to fix the wound, you need to extract the thing that created the wound in the first place.