1/ It looks like I’m on track to spend about $250 on gasoline this year.*
That’s not some sign of my environmental purity. I hate driving, and have built my life around avoiding it at all costs.
*(Haven’t 100% given up flying yet)
That’s not some sign of my environmental purity. I hate driving, and have built my life around avoiding it at all costs.
*(Haven’t 100% given up flying yet)
2/ But it’s crucial the climate movement get its head out of its ass on this topic. It keeps attacking oil industry - an industry entirely tertiary to oil burning:
The primary cause of oil burning is land use patterns; the secondary cause are carmakers who enable those patterns.
The primary cause of oil burning is land use patterns; the secondary cause are carmakers who enable those patterns.
3/ If you change land use patterns, you drastically undermine the auto industry. I’m living proof. Like I said, $250 this year on gas, mostly to visit family in Oregon or friends in Marin (thanks, @Damon_Connolly, for blocking the bike lane on the Richmond bridge).
4/ If you decide changing land use patterns is not your thing, then you can change auto industry by forcing them to make cars/trucks that either don’t run on gasoline at all, or run on very, very little. Both approaches failing, so far, though we’re told that will change soon.
5/ But the oil industry shouldn’t even factor into this fight and I’m honestly embarrassed we keep focusing on it. They sell a product that’s only needed because we buy another product that we only need because we got fooled into thinking car-dependent suburbs are groovy.
6/ And honestly, we have so many other campaigns where the (correct, IMO) solution is “stop buying the product that causes harm.”
CARS ARE THE MOST DEADLY PRODUCTS IN HUMAN HISTORY HOW ABOUT WE START THERE
Nah let’s go after the magic water we put in these deadly devices
CARS ARE THE MOST DEADLY PRODUCTS IN HUMAN HISTORY HOW ABOUT WE START THERE
Nah let’s go after the magic water we put in these deadly devices
7/ Anyway, yes I’m aware some people like driving & others “have no choice” & so forth, not everyone lives the same way. But you don’t solve problems by focusing attention away from their root cause.
And where we live is the root cause of oil consumption. Who’s fault is that?
And where we live is the root cause of oil consumption. Who’s fault is that?
8/ I 100% guarantee you, it’s not the oil industry. /END THIS RANT ITS LATE AND I CANT SLEEP
Receipts, for those of you who still believe car industry propaganda that EVs will solve this problem. If you don’t believe the California Air Resources Board, you are in a form of climate denial: ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/…
More receipts eenews.net/stories/106009…
ancora piu curbed.com/a/texas-califo…
