(March 23, 2019 at 2:17 pm)Yonadav Wrote:(March 23, 2019 at 1:40 pm)Brian37 Wrote: It isn't a matter of banning transportation, but getting transportation off of burning fossil fuels.
Just like we no longer use rotary phones but now have cell phones.
No one said anything about banning transportation. But the personally owned private automobile needs to go. Retards think tailpipe emissions are everything. More realistic people know that the carbon footprint of manufacturing billions of private coaches is astronomical. Green Consumerism is more about the money than the environment.
Been thinking the same thing about private transportation for years.
Unfortunately for us, the internal combustion engine, private use of and roads for is at the very heart of our culture.
I've long seen it as a matter of 'when' not of 'if' . Private transport as it is right now, will go , eventually. Probably not in my lifetime.
In my city, public transport is a disaster. EG to drive to work used to take me 24 minutes. Door to door public transport 1.5 hours. I live in a hilly area. Shopping centre is far for me to walk. OF COURSE i would survive without a car, but I would also be very isolated.
It's likely I will need to give up driving within the next 5-10 years. Then I'll probably have one of those golf buggy thingies. Assuming course I don't develop some ghastly disease, or just drop dead.**
The energy industry is moving in the way I predicted over a decade ago; the market is turning towards renewables as oil has becomes more expensive ,and supplies are running out. Alternative forms of energy are becoming increasing economical.
I'm curious to know what will replace oil in the dozens of other uses it now has, especially in plastics and fertiliser.. I'm unconvinced that using food crops for fuel or possibly plastics is a viable long term solution.
I'd have an electric or hydrogen car now if I could afford it, but not a hybrid. I consider hybrids over priced transition technology
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** I go to a mens group, for old farts. Youngest member 58, oldest 86. We have lost four, members in the last 18 months; 3 from cancer, one, at 82, died 2 weeks ago, in his sleep. Lucky bastard.
