| Hostile much? Jeez. Grab a coffee dude. > I grew up in the 70's with constant shrieking about "peak oil" and how we are all doomed. Well long-term we'll definitely run out of easy to get oil and have to create synthetics of some sort. But the oil is irrelevant. The infrastructure itself is the problem - designed for cars such that cars become necessary for people to function. That's a problem. It's not only a problem simply from an overall resource usage perspective or from a maintenance perspective, but it adversely affects those who are poor or maybe can't drive. The entire society is built such that you have to go buy a car in order to function. I don't see the reason or point in that. Walk down the street. Americans are fat asses anyway. > A 2,000 pound machine may be too expensive for you. Luckily it's not for me Very selfish attitude. If you want to buy a car that's fine - I'm suggesting we stop relying on it like some sort of prosthetic. For what it's worth my wife and I have a car. We actually recently sold one and condensed down to two so we can do some other things instead. But idk maybe I'm just too poor. > And what makes this a practical reality despite your being convinced it's impossible? Capitalism. ... No idea where you're going with this rant. Maybe you think I'm attacking capitalism? That's silly. I'm a big time free-market capitalist. I love it. I hate communists, actually - at least as government policy. > A few public works projects are pretty far from fuing Communism. You missed the point (and from your apparent attitude here maybe that's intentional) - but it wasn't to suggest that public works are communism, it's to suggest that public policy* is at play here - not free-market capitalism. It's public policy that allocates money for roads, or creates zoning rules (government - not the market). So to suggest that building differently or more thoughtfully is communism but people driving cars around on public roads is capitalism is, well, tastefully ironic. Me saying "we shouldn't have as many cars, stop building dumb roads" isn't any more communist than you say "we need more roads and I have 3 cars". I really don't know where this communism stuff is coming from. |