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metastasis_d:
--- Quote from: hedgie on 02 Feb 2015, 22:15 ---I don't drive. Even if I did have more money, I wouldn't. I cycle or take transit everywhere.
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I'd love to not need a vehicle, but there're just too many things I can't do with public transportation.
--- Quote from: explicit on 02 Feb 2015, 22:16 ---My town gave us a bucket for recycling, though I was surprised when I found out some towns don't have any recycling options (I have no idea how really small work really). Given two options people are going to choose what's easiest and just throw everything away together..
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Unfortunately fixing our environmental problems (or even settling for not making it any worse) takes people making to choose the less easy option. It does seem people are becoming more aware these days, though, myself included.
hedgie:
--- Quote from: metastasis_d on 02 Feb 2015, 22:29 ---
--- Quote from: hedgie on 02 Feb 2015, 22:15 ---I don't drive. Even if I did have more money, I wouldn't. I cycle or take transit everywhere.
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I'd love to not need a vehicle, but there're just too many things I can't do with public transportation.
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It's obviously dependent on where one lives. Transport isn't as reliable or as frequent as when I lived in SF, for example, but my area still has a high enough population density to support a halfway decent system.
metastasis_d:
--- Quote from: hedgie on 02 Feb 2015, 23:06 ---It's obviously dependent on where one lives. Transport isn't as reliable or as frequent as when I lived in SF, for example, but my area still has a high enough population density to support a halfway decent system.
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Oh, definitely. I'm originally from Houston, where the public transportation is practically non-existent. Now I'm in a college town in central Missouri, and while there are bus routes for the apartment complexes and student dormitories, there isn't anything where I live.
On top of that, even if I could do away with a daily driver for most of the year, I do a lot of stuff where I need my truck. Not every day or even every week, but at least a couple dozen times a year. Transporting scuba gear, kayaks, mulch, and lumber is difficult at best on a Metro bus. Plus it's nice to be able to help people move.
Now if Dodge or somebody could come out with an all-electric pickup truck, I'd be golden.
Orkboy:
Electric cars aren't actually as good for the environment as you would think. The large battery banks used require a lot of extremely toxic materials, and it's not like those things last forever. In addition, a lot of the toxic components are manufactured in countries where things like tumor-riddled factory workers don't get on the news. So, yeah. Woo. I'm just waiting for my atomic car. Nuclear power is actually better than most other forms of power production, assuming you have the kind of modern fail-safes that were invented after Chernobyl. And if you use the kind of breeder reactors France uses, nuclear waste is recycled multiple times as additional fuel. Downside: With breeder reactors, the waste isn't moderately radioactive depleted uranium, it's very small amounts of motherfucking plutonium. The only really safe thing to do with plutonium is launch it into the sun. Or use it to blow up commies. Ya know, whichever.
hedgie:
Well, a pick-up is a practical vehicle for a lot of people. A lot of my friends are either tradesmen, or otherwise have to haul heavy shit a lot of the time. I won't judge anyone for using one, even though they're not normally the most energy-efficient. And one can't always afford another vehicle. The last time I drove one, though, I didn't like it. The seating was too high, compared to what I was used to, but I was the only person there besides the person whom I was driving who knew how to drive a standard transmission.
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