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Trains are very energy efficient. Is this person advocating for putting trains on every road?
Ohh noooo. I guess if it's the only way.
oh man this type of thing annoys the hell out of me. Someone will take the calories of a person cycling per day and say its not great environmentally without taking into account subtracting out the calories required for someone to exist period.
When I was cycling to and from work I burned about an extra 400 calories a day going to spend from work. That's a protien shake.
How many calories do Mountain Dew and Cheetos have
I am Dutch, have 0 cars, 2 bicycles, and I'm perfectly happy with it. I've only recently came across the first situation in which I felt like car access would be usefull.
A couple I'm friends with were pregnant and they don't have a car either, but since they wanted to be able to go to the hospital quickly and indepently, they rented a car for a week or so. This would't work for me because I don't have a drivers license. People often ask me 'but what if you need to do this or that...' and never do I feel like they're pointing towards a problem that I have. Just some minor inconvenience, if one at all. But in this case I thought, yeah if my wife were pregnant it would be damn usefull to be able to transport her by car, by myself. If it ever happens I'm sure we'll find a solution though. But I found it interesting that it was only the first situation in which it actually seemed usefull to me to have car access.
Yeah, if you bring up cycling, all of a sudden everybody needs to transport a fridge to another town in the rain.
Skill issue.
And people need to drive in mid-town Manhattan because Wyoming ranchers exist. Carbrain is a helluva drug.
I wonder if in a society such as yours, where this is all more common.
Could you have taxi companies that take a small fee up front to guarantee you a rapid taxi to hospital when the time comes. I'll assume ambulances are fine for accidents and emergencies. A regular taxi (and the wait) is fine for unexpected trips where you are unable to cycle for some reason.
But a reasonable fee to say, I want a "rapid" taxi for this instance.
I think that "reasonable fee" would be a quite high one. You're basically asking someone to be available 24/7 for a specified period of time. And besides, depending on where the person is when you call them it might actually be quicker to just call a cab.
I see someone's read Reiner Eichenberger's nonsense (and remembers about half of it).
Yeah, their comment is a joke, but it does mention real things that are real problems with our food supply chain. Some of which could be mitigated by growing locally. Because somebody at some point made a problem with vehicles, and they "solved" it with vehicles.
we are already overproducing food and throwing it away, so even if there was logic in the idea, it would not actually require additional farming, manufacuring, transportation, etc
Haha lol, assuming people in cars count calories and or operate on minimal / in a deficit. Regardless of the car argument, people riding bikes are more likely to be counting calories and in a calorie deficit, as they're more health conscious. People driving cars wouldn't care as much, on average, and would consume more calories than necessary, probably triple the "cycling" extra calorie needs. Omfg. I could debate either side, if I had to, that's the stupidest take I've ever heard. It holds absolutely no water. Where's the data showing people in cars consume less food / calories.
What you actually need are walkable cities, transit (trains/buses) friendly neighborhoods, that would make it easy for people.
I'm pretty sure overweight tommy incel the reddit mod eats more than twice what I eat and has never touched a bike in his life