Reading a conversation about cars, with so many people demanding that cars don\u2019t exist anymore because they\u2019re bad, \u201cboo\u201d etc.<\/p>\n
Chill.<\/p>\n
Cars are necessary anywhere outside cities, aka, most of the world. And you still need them in sprawling suburbs. And when you move furniture. And when you need to water your friend\u2019s plants up high on a hill after work. Or when you need to go to a random location for a vaccine or a skate spot.<\/p>\n
Cars are rather essential, period. Stop arguing about this.<\/p>\n
People forget one good thing: cars have made tremendous progress on efficiency and cleanliness! <\/p>\n
The MPG we get today was complete science-fiction in 1983. 80? 100? I see hybrids at 133<\/em> miles per gallon! No one believed that it was even possible<\/em> 30 years ago! That\u2019s how much we got better. It deserves a smile.<\/p>\n That progress hasn\u2019t curved pollution much because while our cars got far better at energy consumption, we\u2019ve started to ship stuff around the world ten times more. Ten times more cargo ships, ten times more gross fuel being burned (a cargo ship burns the equivalent of thousands of cars\u2019 gas tanks *every hour*), ten times more pollution. And a whole lot of planes in the air too.<\/p>\n Connect the dots, y\u2019all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reading a conversation about cars, with so many people demanding that cars don\u2019t exist anymore because they\u2019re bad, \u201cboo\u201d etc. Chill. Cars are necessary anywhere outside cities, aka, most of the world. And you still need them in sprawling suburbs. And when you move furniture. And when you need to water your friend\u2019s plants up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3477,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476\/revisions\/3477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}