Enough braying
I cut the financial bleeding and ditched my car.
Now I happily ride my bikes.
And if its too far to ride to get what I need, I buy online.
There’s seldom reason for me to drive these days.
Detroit destroyed itself by building crap cars.
Period.
Yesterday, I packed my ‘92 Suburban to the ceiling, even running 12 foot skirting from the back to the windshield. Behind me was a 5x8 trailer packed with tools. On an average day the Suburban is hauling something too big for an average car. I suppose if you could get away with a bicycle or a Smart Car that is wonderful. But, then, you will not refurbish housing as low-end income rentals, now will you?
As a matter of fact, you won’t do much around your house beyond fixing a leaking faucet and you won’t get two yards of mulch to spruce up the front garden. You’ll pretty much just exist without doing much else than punch computer keys.
Detroit is the floor plan that is now Venezuela.
Given half a chance the left would have us all doing as they do - sitting around waiting to die. F them.
People packed tightly into urban cities are easy to control.
People spread out across the suburbs and rural areas are hard to control.
How do you get people to move from outlying areas into cities? Restring transportation—specifically cars.
It’s about control.
Old fashioned liberals believed in imposing sane priorities on concerns and looking for where God wanted them to go.
Modern illiberal “liberals” (the liberals of old would hoot at what they do) want to make everything a priority, YOUR priority, and go where the devil wants them to go.
The problem with public transportation is that it is not for the public. Rural people pay higher taxes and get less bang for the buck than the socialist centers called cities. Where does the “road tax” go? It pays for socialized “public transportation” that rural people pay for the freeloaders in the cities to use.
Look into UN agenda 21 AKD agenda 2030
Not just cars-
-Appliances, especially HVAC.
-Homes (look at your growing building code)
-Yard care (you might be in a state where only chemicals that don’t work can be used)
-Toilets
-Light bulbs
-Time (daylight savings)
Just about everything in the average person’s life is under assault.
Cars used to cost about 10% the average annual income. Now it’s over 50.
As someone starting out, you could work to improve your life by starting w/all the cheap stuff, save, and get the better things later.
Now you can’t even get off the ground because it’s too expensive.
Note more and more kids living w/parents.
Only going to get worse. No more upward mobility.
Only place I felt I didn’t need a car was in NYC. Never bothered renting one when there on biz. Had family that never owned one there too.
Anywhere else - fuggedaboutit.
I ditched my car too after the repairs of damage caused by ethanol gas became too expensive. Anyway, I live in a stack and pack hi-rise with my other Comrads. I have no need to travel and see the countryside. All my needs are met in my Sustainable Development, walkable community. There is even a Walmart just steps away that takes my food ration coupons.
Once a month I treat myself to 12 ounces of fish. I think it all comes from our Chinese or Vietnamese Comrads now.
My Political Officer has told me that because of my stellar attendance at our Behaviour Modification sessions I stand a good chance of being issued a voucher to travel outside our Urban Growth Boundary this fall. If I am lucky I will be allowed to travel by High Speed Rail to Region 13 and attend this years Hunger Games. (sarc)