We already know people love walkable cities, because most vacation destinations are walkable. People can afford car suburbs only because they're heavily subsidized by the government. If suburban drivers had to bear the real cost of their transit choices, they'd vote with their wallets and move someplace where it's cheaper to get around.
Some will. Some people drive because they have to. I know people who own cars and only use them for certain things and prefer bicycle.
I don't. But not by choice, it was totaled in a car wreck. I don't use our shit city buses, I ride a bicycle, or if I'm lucky I can borrow one of my moms SUVs. I hate relying on my bike, honestly.
My apartment complex was built[at least finished or started] in 1960. Doesn't have HVAC, has radiators and they give you a window a/c, which I rigged up in the kitchen as an exhaust fan. I do what you do, open windows. Paired with the giant oak in the front yard, even if it is hot, it's gonna be hotter outside- not that I mind, anyway, how hot it is. It actually seemed to konk out last time I tried to use it. I need to have them come and get it. I don't even want one unless it doubles as a heater- then I'll have use for one.
The land it can take up.
Something the US has in abundance
Who does that‽
I don't really see it that way. We as people don't need to own every square mile of land. Let nature have some. Most of it, honestly. Just like this density talk. I might like living in the city, but something like Courescant is not a place I'd like to live, even with the repulsor crafts.
Fuck that. I want my car.
If you're lucky, you reach an age with conditions that put a bicycle and even walking or getting to and managing at a bus stop--and especially the concept of returning with a week's groceries--out of the realm of possibility.
Exactly. I'm not arguing we don't have the land, I'm saying we don't need it all.
Depends. I've seen large solar farms and I think wind farms are even bigger. Oil fields take up acres, so does strip mining, at least the miners replace what they take. Really, solar farms can be in the city itself.
We have the land for renewables.
I have a car that I drive once a week to go to the grocery store. I would happily trade it for an electric cargo bike if there were more protected bike lanes in my neighborhood. Most of my errands I do by walking.
And buildings.Parking lots and shade structures are perfect for solar
Fair point,but how often do you actually make the trip?
So am I.
Oil's not going anywhere for i'd say 100 years, maybe longer, until it runs out even. The point isn't to end the use of petroleum. It's to grab the low hanging fruit, which is really personal vehicles and where possible public transportation.
Then I won't hear you bitching about how much it costs to fill up, right?
I make bio-diesel for my farm tractor and backhoe. Diesel engines were designed to run on peanut oil. Ethanol is a waste of time, and effort IMHO. Lower fuel mileage, harder on the fuel system and it needs subsidies still to keep the cost down.
Fire departments that have the equipment.
What? Maybe expand on that. Normally you make good sense, but not here.
