My fix for global warming: outlaw personal autos in cities

[glenn1]

Electrical Cars are the solution to global warming.

Electricity is just a power mode, it still needs to be generated. No my friend, the solution is to not allow anyone to drive privately owned cars. The same urban people who ban transfats and large sodas for everyone else's benefit surely won't have any problem with such a beneficial plan.

 

[Ackmed]

Fuck you. I drive a tricked out '68 Mustang as my daily driver that gets about 8mpg. I love it, and don't give a fuck what any of you hippies think.

 

[CPA]

Electricity is just a power mode, it still needs to be generated. No my friend, the solution is to not allow anyone to drive privately owned cars. The same urban people who ban transfats and large sodas for everyone else's benefit surely won't have any problem with such a beneficial plan.

Lol, okay now i know you're trolling. Two years even. Good job!

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Let them eat solar power. Why do you hate the Earth so much and want poor people to drown when the icecaps melt?

Ok, I thought I understood you and I do.

Carry on.

 

[marincounty]

Electricity is just a power mode, it still needs to be generated. No my friend, the solution is to not allow anyone to drive privately owned cars. The same urban people who ban transfats and large sodas for everyone else's benefit surely won't have any problem with such a beneficial plan.

Okay, great idea, you first. Sell your car and take public transportation.
You don't have any public transportation? Thank the oil companies and Republicans for that.
Meanwhile Europe and Japan have great public transportation, of course they didn't let the auto and oil companies destroy their public transit. They also don't spend nearly a trillion dollars a year on defense, we pay for it for them.
And transfats are unhealthy in any amount, kudos to the govt for fixing the problem they caused and banning transfats.
Just like they banned lead in the gasoline, for the public good. And required seat belts in cars. Do you want leaded gas back?

 

[master_shake_]

fun fact the guy who invented leaded additive for gas also invented r12 refrigerant.

you know that stuff that put the hole in the ozone layer.

 

[ralfy]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ear...e-scandal-of-fiddled-global-warming-data.html

Goddard shows how, in recent years, NOAA’s US Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) has been “adjusting” its record by replacing real temperatures with data “fabricated” by computer models. The effect of this has been to downgrade earlier temperatures and to exaggerate those from recent decades, to give the impression that the Earth has been warming up much more than is justified by the actual data.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Goddard

 

[ralfy]

Electrical Cars are the solution to global warming.

"Bjorn Lomborg: Green Cars Have a Dirty Little Secret"

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324128504578346913994914472

 

[berzerker60]

If you've never lived in a city where you CAN live without a car, and tried it, you have no idea how much of a relief - and release from financial burden - it is. No insurance, no parking, no traffic. When you really need a car, check one out from a car-share service for a few Internet clicks and a few bucks per hour. Get some exercise and fresh air biking to work or the grocery store (a few bike bags / panniers can store a lot of groceries). Public transit is WAY safer than driving.

 

[brycejones]

I can't believe what was originally a troll post by the OP came back from the dead.

 

[OutHouse]

Scooters pour out more clouds of exausting than cars

 

[dainthomas]

If you've never lived in a city where you CAN live without a car, and tried it, you have no idea how much of a relief - and release from financial burden - it is. No insurance, no parking, no traffic. When you really need a car, check one out from a car-share service for a few Internet clicks and a few bucks per hour. Get some exercise and fresh air biking to work or the grocery store (a few bike bags / panniers can store a lot of groceries). Public transit is WAY safer than driving.

None of that will work for anyone with a young kid. Sure, I'll ride my bike to the grocery store with my eight year old in the pouring rain in January. Sounds amazing.

 

[Newell Steamer]

Meanwhile, it's perfectly OK for a billionaire to decide/dictate how you live.

What is it with you guys and your undying love for rich old white guys? I mean, part of me really hopes you are hot gold diggers,...

Oh Bobby, tell me again how $35K a year is more than enough for a family of 4, full health insurance,
mortgage, food, gas, car, home insurance, taxes, clothing, utilities, savings and venture capitalist investment!!!

,... because anything else is just sad.

 

[glenn1]

Meanwhile, it's perfectly OK for a billionaire to decide/dictate how you live.

What is it with you guys and your undying love for rich old white guys? I mean, part of me really hopes you are hot gold diggers,...

This thread isn't about your NYC mayors. Take your complaints about being infantilized and having things taken away from you for your own good to it's own thread and leave the rest of us in Free America alone. But then again this subservient bootlicking does make you the ideal test bed for the prohibition of private cars. And NYPD cops will be thrilled as it's a lot easier to catch and beat the shit out of someone who's on foot.

 

[Newell Steamer]

This thread isn't about your NYC mayors. Take your complaints about being infantilized and having things taken away from you for your own good to it's own thread and leave the rest of us in Free America alone. But then again this subservient bootlicking does make you the ideal test bed for the prohibition of private cars. And NYPD cops will be thrilled as it's a lot easier to catch and beat the shit out of someone who's on foot.

What you said doesn't mean much, since you probably can't even count to the number 7, let alone figure out how to operate (or even live frankly) in a city of 7 million people.

 

[Linux23]

I like the idea honestly. I'd prefer personal transportation though in the city, i.e. a self driving vehicle where i can schedule it to pick me up from home and off to my destination using my smartphone (within the city). If Intercity then it will drop me off to a mass transit station on the outer border of the city that i'm in and then i can catch a link to whatever destination city I want to get to. Completely eliminating the need for a dangerous car.

If I want to drive my own personal vehicle, then a vehicle use tax should be enacted.