"ban (the gas pump) together to fight the worst effects of climate change."
Because lets face it, to really combat climate change the changes must begin at home.
I drive a SMART car to reduce my carbon footprint, against the tide of popular "american exceptionalist" vehicles blowing 10 times the CO2 necessary to transport one, two bodies and two bags of groceries home, most often 1 body to work.
It will take letting go of the last acceptable prejudice that I even see here sometimes:
Bashing the poor, the public-transit working class. (urbanites forgive me, I know how it is there, I'm attempting to awaken some sleeping masses so entrenched on paying their steep car payments, gasoline, upkeep, insurance, parking, licence plates, driver's licence, tickets, flats, wrecks, gridlock, road ragers, exorbitant fuel taxes, road taxes, tolls, funerals from DUI's, detailing and defogging the headlamps yearly...
just so they can say "living the dream"
*cough*
Shame on you, America. This country could be in far better shape having massively diversified the transit industry 50 years ago. Double shame on Fox noise and the oil-soaked "patriots", yet please:
There is no excuse this country does not have fast rail service everywhere by now, except for "living the"...
freaky nightmare.
That curly-que emblem on your dash is looking uglier every year.
Yet even in the most progressive of sites, seldom a peep about personal commitment to this.
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