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I love cars. I also love this planet. Cars are bad for the planet.
It said weirdest. This is common and I see it a lot so not weird at all.
Moderation my guy. If everyone had a car they only drive on weekends or as a sport, there wouldn’t be an issue. So cars are not really the problem per se, it’s how we designed our world to revolve around moving in a car.
Sane take.
I'm also very much a "car guy", but I fucking love that since covid and work-from-home I don't have to do day-to-day driving anymore. I do less than 20% of the mileage that I used to do.
So yeah don't get mad at car owners, get mad at return-to-office mandates and such.
How I feel about motorcycles.
Motorcycles are better than cars though. On average they get many more miles to the gallon and they cause less traffic than the giant SUVs that Americans are addicted to.
I have never felt so seen on the internet!
I love cars and the environment. I really want EVs to be cool / better but we just aren’t there yet.
If ICE cars were banned for everything but racing/recreation I'd be very happy.
Racing series' do not need to make their race cars green. They need to make their logistics fleets green. Race cars need to be able to remain loud and dirty. The sights, sounds, and smells of racing combine to create the majesty that is racing.
I look forward to a future of efficient public transit, no new ICEs on the roads and V12s back in F1.
Oddly, the wake-up call that made me realize I needed to step back from cars was at a racetrack. I was standing on pit lane with our race about to start, and was looking up & down pit road. There must have been 1000 gallons of gas all stored in 5 gallon jugs (100+ teams, each with 20-30 gallons, so probably closer to 2500 gallons in hindsight). And it made me realize we were all going to burn it all just for fun.
I do not regret my time racing at all, in fact I still encourage new folks to get out there & actually do it (check out ChampCar & 24 hours of Lemons!). I learned so much, had way too much fun, and made some simply irreplaceable memories. But I also feel it's an irresponsible use of a limited resource. Still haven't found a way to balance that equation in my head. For now, I've hung up the helmet.
They still have issues with tire dust, but yeah they're a lot better.
I mean better at being cars not better for the environment. I want a greener car but I don’t want to have to own a worse car to accomplish that.
Solar powered cars when?
Didn’t the 2nd gen Prius have a solar roof? It could only power the ac and accessories iirc.
Get an EV. Get a garage charger. Put panels on your roof. The future is now!