You can hate cars all you want. I see where you might have got the idea I love cars, but in fact like a reasonable person I look at car-centric infrastructure as a bad thing.
However, like a reasonable person, I can also see how workers are tied to that infrastructure. Workers need cars to hold jobs in today’s society. Making driving more expensive makes it harder for working class people to get to their jobs.
I don’t really know how much more straightforward I can be.
Bringing in environmental considerations to this seems on the surface like it’s relevant but it’s not. Yes, everyone needs to stop driving cars. Increasing the cost of driving will mean that people who have the ability will think about other methods of transport. Many people cannot, and making cars more expensive just puts the burden on poorer people to survive.
At some point, I think it’s important to break down what talking about increasing the cost of driving as an environmental win actually means. It means that poorer people will not be able to afford to drive, and so will lose their jobs. The rich don’t give a crap about a couple of bucks extra - they don’t ride public transit for entirely different reasons.
Anyway, thanks for telling me very aggressively that I’m wrong, dumb, uninformed, and should not have an opinion. I actually think you haven’t thought through your views and considered what effect environmental policy can have on vulnerable people. And if you think that means I support cars, well I’m not sure what to tell you.
You can hate cars all you want. I see where you might have got the idea I love cars, but in fact like a reasonable person I look at car-centric infrastructure as a bad thing.
However, like a reasonable person, I can also see how workers are tied to that infrastructure. Workers need cars to hold jobs in today’s society. Making driving more expensive makes it harder for working class people to get to their jobs.
I don’t really know how much more straightforward I can be.
Bringing in environmental considerations to this seems on the surface like it’s relevant but it’s not. Yes, everyone needs to stop driving cars. Increasing the cost of driving will mean that people who have the ability will think about other methods of transport. Many people cannot, and making cars more expensive just puts the burden on poorer people to survive.
At some point, I think it’s important to break down what talking about increasing the cost of driving as an environmental win actually means. It means that poorer people will not be able to afford to drive, and so will lose their jobs. The rich don’t give a crap about a couple of bucks extra - they don’t ride public transit for entirely different reasons.
Anyway, thanks for telling me very aggressively that I’m wrong, dumb, uninformed, and should not have an opinion. I actually think you haven’t thought through your views and considered what effect environmental policy can have on vulnerable people. And if you think that means I support cars, well I’m not sure what to tell you.