Okay great, if I live anywhere besides NYC, where’s my damn train for transport? Oh right its nonexistent. I’d love to take a train but the people that run this shithole say its too expensive and continue to pave more roads! Wow I love living here where my government continues to listen to big oil and destroy the planet in the process!!
I look up train routes (and sometimes bus)everytime I’m going more than 80 miles or so. Guess how many times I’ve found one that will get me where I’m going? I’ll give you a hint, it’s zero.
I’d use my ebike, but that shit will get stolen as soon as I leave it anywhere, and I cannot afford the $3,000 to replace it. So if I am actually going places, I have to drive my vehicle.
It gets you from point A to B, costs nearly nothing to charge, and is environmentally friendly.
Why waste money on a electric alternative of a transportation device that was made to both make you do excercise AND to get you places?
It gets you there faster and without sweating. My eBike goes 50KPH. I arrive at my destination with no sweat.
If you want to get places faster, or just showoff on two wheels, that’s what motorbikes are for.
I’m sorry, but you’re being very ignorant. A motorbike is thousands of dollars, requires hundreds of dollars per month in insurance, requires licenses, maintenance, fuel, etc.
Not to mention not everyone can ride a standard bike. Older people, people with chronic illnesses, etc. I personally had a double lung transplant. I’m not pedal biking, nor am I paying $750/month for motorbike insurance in my province.
I love biking but there are times where I need to get somewhere across town and I don’t feel like pedaling there and back.
In my town there are lots of inexpensive and rentable e-bikes. Very easy to use, not overly powerful or noisy. I see lots of people using them to go out or commute.
I’d like to get one of my own because the rentable ones have zero shock absorption.
There are different kinds of ebikes but many don’t eliminate your effort, they just multiple it. They can be particularly helpful when going uphill to make it feel a bit more like you’re peddling up flat ground. The fact that they’re overall quieter and lighter weight means you can access bicycle lanes and multi-use pathways. Operating costs are also drastically lower than motorcycles.
Please remember that the corporations are polluting to provide services to the populace at large. You might as well accuse your pizza delivery driver for polluting after he gives you your order.
I mean, in a city it shows up on a bike or scooter. I think Amazon is a better example. They provide a great service that is nothing but fast delivery and wasteful packing because that’s what we want. My answer is that it should be regulated and taxed to show the real cost this convenience has on the world. Another instance is single use utensils. They should not be so cheap to produce that they are being practically thrown away with takeout. Major polluting items need to be artificially made more expensive so that culturally it makes sense to carry our own for or chopsticks with us. That’s what regulation is for, creating parameters that companies need to work within, because their motivations are to give us what we want as cheaply as possible to gain market share
Let’s start on pushing for thermally neutral building materials and reducing food waste. If buildings weren’t concrete heat sinks it wouldn’t take so much energy to keep them cool and food waste is a large contributor to pollution and spreads disease.
Thing is, it’s not like consumers choose to use plastic packaging. It’s not like we choose to release forever chemicals into the water supply instead of dealing with them responsibly.
Banning wood and coal fired pizza in the city is going to single handedly refreeze the polar ice caps and produce no less than 72% more sea ice YOY than we currently see.
They are restricting particulate emissions not Co2 emissions. It’s not a climate change thing it’s an air quality thing. The pizzareias need to filter out the particulate, not get rid of their pizza ovens.
Even if they were banning coal/wood fired pizza ovens it wouldn’t effect pizza. Pizza ovens get up to 900f and the pizza cooks in 90 seconds. There is no time for any smoke flavor to penitrate the pizza. A natural gas or electric oven is going to yield the same result so long as they hit that 900f temp.
I just had to reply to this one again at the audacity of claim #3 when we’re discussing wood fired NY Pizza vs a fucking electric oven, of which, our power plants are natural gas.
Nothing is ever anybody’s fault and nobody has any agency and if we just get rid of the top 100 polluting companies that wont impact our lives in any way and nobody will get mad about it
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