• 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I think you’re arguing points that weren’t made.

    Individually owned automobiles and the systems required to support them are wasteful and polluting no matter how you power them.

    Electric cars are better, yes. But their popularity is in a large part because they allow us to mostly maintain the status quo.

    Do you think they are a sustainable long-term solution? Should we be planning our future around paved roads made almost exclusively for personally owned mostly single-occupant vehicles?

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      1 year ago

      It’s two months later and I’ve done a 180 on this opinion and went from “fuck gas cars” to “fuck all cars”.

      The car infrastructure is the shitty part, not so much the cars

      • CurtAdams@urbanists.social
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        1 year ago

        @corm @1993_toyota_camry Sort of? All cars ruin our lives. But gas cars also ruin the planet, where electric are substially better now and will be almost carbon free in 30 years or so. Getting rid of cars in general is very desirable, but getting rid of gas cars is an existential necessity.