solarpunk memes

Hybrid cars are up there, too. Range anxiety was solved more than 20 years ago by the Toyota Prius. Look it up

Come to my mind, for a while back in the nineties and two-thousands, there was a push to abandon those dirty public transportation devices like buses and trains in favor of biking, walking, etc., but it mainly ended with people switching to cars. Maybe there was some industry push.

I'm all for public transit, but I will mention for the sake of honesty, Paul Weyrich, the creator of the Heritage Foundation had a bizarre fixation on trains from an early age.

Government funding for basically anything else related to common public good was forbidden, but for some reason trains were like his one "thing" he believed the government should fund.

Moving Minds: Conservatives and Public Transportation

So I'm all for public transit, but I would still demand public accountability. We deserve to know exactly who is profiting from any publicly funded projects.

Edit: He wrote a lot, and frequently found a way to sneak something about his public transportation fetish in just about everything he wrote (even somehow in a blog post shitting on New Orleans days after Katrina), but this is probably one of my favorite takes:

Bring Back the Streetcars! A Conservative Vision of Tomorrow’s Urban Transportation

What’s Right with This Picture?

Everything. It is a fine summer day in New Westminster, British Columbia, in the year 1909. Car 39 has stopped briefly on Park Row on its way into town. It carries its passengers through a world that is ordered, serene, at peace. Their eyes feast upon the glories of Queen Anne architecture. They hear the birds and the trolley wire sing a duet in an ether as yet unpolluted by engine noise or boom boxes. Their poised servants, the motorman and conductor of the car, stand as visible assurances of responsibility and reliability. God is in His Heaven and all is right with the world.

🤣 This would be so hilarious if we weren't all watching the U.S. being torn apart as a direct result of his life's work.

also a 2nd hand ICE car is more sustainable than a new EV

While I agree that we need a national public works project worth of new modern trains.

Anyone who says stuff like this should be forced to drive 10 hours across the US first.

Anywhere to anywhere. Drive for 10 hours. Then plot your completed course on a map of the lower 48. Just to demonstrate how monstrously fucking huge this country is. So they understand that while trains are amazing. They aren't the panacea some seem to think.