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A deeply unserious country. What else can you say?
by csto12 6mo ago
A deeply unserious country. What else can you say?
- quink 6mo agoThat Duffy sent this letter to the governors: https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/memorandum/Freedom_to_Drive_Initiative-Signed_Letter_to_Governors-20260420.pdf https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/memorandum/Freedom_to_Drive_Initiat... Asking them to maximise roadway capacity (that’s to say just one more lane bro) in order to solve congestion, at the explicit request to have other modes of transport minimised. “recover roadway capacity from other purposes to support driving” because that’ll solve congestion. Deeply, deeply unserious.
- corygarms 6mo agoSo to recap: we should pave the earth for gas cars, tax EVs into oblivion for the damage they do, and call it "freedom."
- cyberax 6mo ago[flagged]
- cozzyd 6mo agoHmm pretty sure this train I'm on right now is taking me home from work. Transit is such a failure that I haven't owned a car in 15 years...
- chrisco255 6mo agoThats nice but that doesnt work for vast majority of the United States. Cars are here to stay. People live in the suburbs you aren't going to mass migrate hundreds of millions of people.
- cozzyd 6mo agoBoth things can be true?
- cyberax 6mo agoLet me guess: single, no children? Or a full-time stay-at-home spouse if more than 2 children? Alternatively, not the US.
- cozzyd 6mo agoMarried with a 4-year-old, in the US (Chicago ). About to bring her to school on the bus in a bit.
- chrisco255 6mo agoThis is how Congress works, for better or worse. Bills get proposed all the time by any one of its five hundred or so members, it doesn't mean either one will pass. That's democracy.
- dzhiurgis 6mo agoI've been paying my EV tax for 1.5 years now in NZ. It's about 2x more than hybrid cars pay thru tax. Just dropped $800 for the next 10k km. Also some sort of registration rebate has been removed so another $100 per year.