This looks to me like a technological Declaration of Dependence. Maybe we could come up with an equivalent factory to turn our washing machines into washboards and our machine presses into screwdrivers. Shoot, there’s an entire Industrial Revolution full of technologies we could undo on our way back to the imaginary pastoral paradise of our Cro-Magnon forebears.
Turning cars into bikes isn’t a good idea. People will just make more cars. Most American cities are designed to make you dependent on cars. I’ve chosen to live where I don’t need a car every day. About five years in the U.S. and almost 15 in Germany. It is easier here because the government (despite economic interests and a deep-seeded love of cars) builds infrastructure to allow life without cars. Public transportation and bikes are a technological and social advance over one person driving in a car four miles to a supermarket. It’s a choice and it has made me healthier.
And if most people in the states had commutes of less than half-an-hour by car, and most people DIDN’T deliberately swerve to hit most bikes they saw, and the country had lots of roads that supported bicycle use, and if bikes in bad parts of town could be parked without being stolen by a thief with wire cutters, a screwdriver, and two spare minutes… this could be viable.
Electric trains work well. Avoid most of the traffic and can carry many people. Rather like in a much connected Europe. Something we have avoided. As we move away from the primitive and damaging fossil fuels we could work on eventually easing the inevitable threat of a Hot House Earth. The Eocene Thermal Maximum about 40-30 million years ago comes close, the ultimate was 250 mya at the end of the Permian and beginning of the Triassic we may come closest to.
And what about those people whose jobs require that they own their own vehicles? If you read this strip in the newspaper each day, someone with a gas-powered vehicle fired it up in the morning to bring it to you.
Templo S.U.D. over 7 years ago
the blueprints look green, but the concept of that garage does not much to me
Richard S Russell Premium Member over 7 years ago
This looks to me like a technological Declaration of Dependence. Maybe we could come up with an equivalent factory to turn our washing machines into washboards and our machine presses into screwdrivers. Shoot, there’s an entire Industrial Revolution full of technologies we could undo on our way back to the imaginary pastoral paradise of our Cro-Magnon forebears.
Yontrop over 7 years ago
Turning cars into bikes isn’t a good idea. People will just make more cars. Most American cities are designed to make you dependent on cars. I’ve chosen to live where I don’t need a car every day. About five years in the U.S. and almost 15 in Germany. It is easier here because the government (despite economic interests and a deep-seeded love of cars) builds infrastructure to allow life without cars. Public transportation and bikes are a technological and social advance over one person driving in a car four miles to a supermarket. It’s a choice and it has made me healthier.
Phred Premium Member over 7 years ago
More bikes, less cars.
NeedaChuckle Premium Member over 7 years ago
Shades of Al Jafee!
Adiraiju over 7 years ago
And if most people in the states had commutes of less than half-an-hour by car, and most people DIDN’T deliberately swerve to hit most bikes they saw, and the country had lots of roads that supported bicycle use, and if bikes in bad parts of town could be parked without being stolen by a thief with wire cutters, a screwdriver, and two spare minutes… this could be viable.
kaffekup over 7 years ago
Im assuming he runs the furnace and assemblers by burning the now-unnecessary gas in the tanks of the cars.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 7 years ago
Electric trains work well. Avoid most of the traffic and can carry many people. Rather like in a much connected Europe. Something we have avoided. As we move away from the primitive and damaging fossil fuels we could work on eventually easing the inevitable threat of a Hot House Earth. The Eocene Thermal Maximum about 40-30 million years ago comes close, the ultimate was 250 mya at the end of the Permian and beginning of the Triassic we may come closest to.
Ironhold over 7 years ago
And what about those people whose jobs require that they own their own vehicles? If you read this strip in the newspaper each day, someone with a gas-powered vehicle fired it up in the morning to bring it to you.