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Environment & Energy

hunter

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2. My kids will tell you a car's no good for getting to grandma and grandpa's house.

Reply to itsrobert (Reply #1)

Sun Jun 16, 2013, 04:30 PM

Jun 2013

You gotta fly or take a boat.

My wife and I wouldn't have to rent a gasoline powered car more than once or twice a year, if that.

In my perfect world most people wouldn't have to own cars, nor would they want to.

Cars destroy the natural environment, they're dangerous, and they smell bad. The "freedom" they give you is a cruel illusion. A driver's license is an internal passport, just like they have in any other authoritarian nation.

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DOE: electric vehicles 1/3 cheaper to drive, 17% lower lifetime costs [View all] wtmusic Jun 2013 OP

Does that include the costs of renting a gas power car when the leaf can't take you all the way to itsrobert Jun 2013 #1

My kids will tell you a car's no good for getting to grandma and grandpa's house. hunter Jun 2013 #2

do you have some beef with the autoworkers? .nt quadrature Jun 2013 #3

I have a beef with automobiles. hunter Jun 2013 #4

there isn't enough work quadrature Jun 2013 #5

Plenty of workers, not enough work? How can that be? hunter Jun 2013 #8

Sacrificing the environment for more jobs, are we? NickB79 Jun 2013 #9

if people don't have jobs ... quadrature Jun 2013 #10

Al has become the poster child for hypocrisy on the left wtmusic Jun 2013 #12

So flying is better on the environment than driving itsrobert Jun 2013 #6

Flying uses fossil fuels. hunter Jun 2013 #7

In a single car household, in most cases, an IC car still makes the most sense. wtmusic Jun 2013 #11