Build trolleys and trains you fuckers
And bicycle infrastructure, please.
Then you wind up with this problem
Trams*
Also, subways and more busses, just public transport overall (obviously).
Sounds great! I look forward to your heavy federal investment into mass transit
(not like that)
And, let’s all return to the office while we’re driving less, right?
Return to the office, don’t return home. Don’t go anywhere else. No driving.
*points at forehead*
Hope all the miserable assholes who voted for stopping electrification feel it in every part of them. I hope they have to give up on real, meaningful life dreams forever because they are now unaffordable. And I hope their houses specifically burn down in the wildfires the CO2 from their gasoline made so common.
I am beyond done with this gasoline bullshit.
You can just electrify on your own though, regardless of what the government wants.
There are a lot of things people can do on their own… in a world where the median US income isn’t $45,000 and responsible and capable products aren’t tariffed to hell.
Mass adoption comes with affordability which comes with support and clear, intentional direction. Consumers don’t shift paradigms when they think the new paradigm won’t go anywhere. We can’t even get people off of X - and that costs NOTHING.
Electrifying on your own is prohibitively expensive for most people, and the fact that those people have to be prepared to also pay an additional premium because they’re fighting their own government at the same time, in a period in time where people can barely afford FOOD, is not tenable.
Using energy costs more money than not using it. With the amount of people flying every day don’t tell me cost is the problem.
With the amount of people flying every day don’t tell me cost is the problem.
Cost is part of the problem.
Dumbass, you think the median person is flying everyday??
There can be some high cost barriers to that in the US.
Adds another lane: drive less!
Stops construction of another public transport project: Drive Less!!
Removes solar power and electric car subsidies: DRIVE Less!
Makes electric bikes illegal: DRIVE LESS!
(Party of freedom, btw)
If it were a dem saying this maga would be crying tyranny like they did with masks during covid.
Supports/encourages RTO policies: Drive less!
Forces for federal employees. More restrictive than pre COVID.
I do hope they keep it up with the hubris cos that always goes well
So, back to home office, yes?
Goolag and Scamazon say no.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Wright
In 2011, he founded Liberty Energy, then known as Liberty Oilfield Services.[15] As of February 2023, the company was valued at $2.8 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal.[16] As the CEO of Liberty Energy, Wright earned $5.6 million in 2023.[11]
Despite Herculean efforts on his part, Chris Wright was ultimately unable to live up to voter expectations of delivering lower fuel prices.
Well we would, if your stupid administration hadn’t cut telework for feds.
Stupid stupid stupid.
US government evolution of transportation ideology
- Walking is for the poors and the idiots
- Cycling is for suicidal maniacs
- Public transit is big government and communism and you’ll get mugged
- Cars are driving up gas prices
- ???
- PROFIT! (for the oil companies and the rest of the ruling class)
“Let them eat cake”
Wait until he figures out that wfh is a great way to reduce driving
The fact that more employers haven’t jumped at WFH is so telling. It’s basically equivalent to an increase in salary, an improvement in employee work life balance, and a wider recruitment pool all wrapped into one without them actually having to do anything, except maybe spend LESS money on overhead.
It’s something we could easily change to improve the lives of everyone and help the environment. I’m really disappointed we’re not seeing more support for it.
Its because a massive amount of our real estate economy is propped up by artificially inflated office space which would kneecap a ton of corporate and REIT profits if they were to go down to actually affordable costs.
I can’t think of many groups more richly deserving financial ruin.
That would mean almost all employers are somehow invested in office space, so much that they rather cripple their business. But that is clearly not the case.
No, just the big corporate ones and specifically the Companies and groups that hold major stock in a lot of other corps.
If Dems said that before the '24 election, to eat less food and drive less to save money, everyone would go mad lol, but this magafool says it and they cool with it.
Great suggestion! The US has great public transit /s… wait… no…
I drive to and from dialysis three times per week, and to the occasional medical appointment. Which of those exactly should I be skipping?
How long without dialysis before you don’t use any gasoline at all?
Remember the anti-COVID vaccination push?
Thank you for the giggle, lol. I’m actually not sure, but there was a lady who became convinced doctors were lying to her and I believe it took a couple of months before she died. So… a couple of months?
You could skip all of them if you take a bus /train/bike. This is of course if you have the option. I don’t know your situation.
dialysis three times per week
/bike
Wheelchair user, too, come to that. lol
E-Bike? E-Scooter? That’s easier than walking depending on how far away you park.
Well, neverminding the 12.2 mile distance, my only option besides a freeway would be a road that is four lane with no sidewalks (it’s technically suburban but for most of the way there’s only the occasional house or business, so I would be in the right lane all the way) with a speed limit of 45 and no street lights.
As a wheelchair user, I’d have to use a four-wheel device. I don’t know the range on those because I don’t own one.
How much could they cost? $10?
/s
The Amtrak ticket would only be $11, although I’d have to leave at 11:50pm the night before AND the bus doesn’t carry wheelchairs anyway. heh. Paratransit doesn’t run early enough, either.
E-Bike? E-Scooter?
Not when there is a 6 lane freeway between you and your destination.
Not everywhere yet, but there are growing regulations and outright bans of e-bikes across US municipalities.
of course if you have the option.
And there is the root of the problem.
Those options are increasingly not available in American cities
Nor are they available to disabled people. But people like @Michal@programming.dev think they have the whole world figured out because they have the privilege to do so.
In some ways, it was worse - when I lived in the same city as the dialysis place, before I was driving again, I took paratransit. Although it’s a “shared ride” and sometimes I’d actually have a fellow passenger, most of the time it was just me in the van. heh.
(Although I know for a fact that during “rush hour” they would sometimes have entire groups going close enough to need a van)
Oof. It would be hilarious to try and take the bus to the Amtrak station in the city in which I live, go up one station to the city in which the dialysis center is located, take the bus to dialysis, have my dialysis, then go back. I’m not sure I could do that in a single day. Certainly not my chair time of 6:00am. But let’s see:
Well, alright. Actually, Amtrak ticket would be $11, which is not bad. And while the ride would be 4:21am-4:20am, I wouldn’t be able to get a bus until 6:00, getting to dialysis 25 minutes late.
The first obstacle is that I would have to leave my apartment for the Amtrak station at 11:30pm the previous day, as service doesn’t run in the middle of the night.