Grandma's house? Or Las Vegas?

You gotta fly or take a boat.

My wife and I wouldn't have to rent a gasoline powered car more than once or twice a year, if that.

In my perfect world most people wouldn't have to own cars, nor would they want to.

Cars destroy the natural environment, they're dangerous, and they smell bad. The "freedom" they give you is a cruel illusion. A driver's license is an internal passport, just like they have in any other authoritarian nation.

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The automobile culture was a horrible, horrible mistake.

Autoworkers could just as well be building electric railroads to replace airlines, long haul trucking, and long distance automobile travel. They could be building lightweight, slower, more energy efficient electric cars and public transportation systems for local travel. They could be building solar power and energy storage systems.

We could also start breaking up sprawling suburbs into smaller walkable communities with distinctive shopping and community centers.

There's plenty of work to be done, we simply have to decide we're going to stop using fossil fuels.

But we won't, and things are going to get ugly.

consider Detroit.

perfectly usable locations
and homesites are being abandoned.

Oh yeah, we're being screwed over by the very wealthy. They need people who will take their abuse. It's do what they tell you to do or starve.

Oh my, oh my.

You can't expect to keep our car-centered culture and adequately address our numerous environmental issues at the same time, even if we replaced all IC-cars with electrics.

The future lies in mass transit out of sheer necessity, Detroit be damned.

they tend to be uncooperative.

especially if cooperation requires
sacrifice.

ask Al Gore to give up
his private jet.

and deservedly so.

Taking Al out of the equation - we need to create transportation, energy, and jobs that have nothing to do with fossil fuels, and do it as quickly as possible.

Or accept that humans are incapable of self-preservation.

Maybe a sailboat. That's the old fashioned way and not nearly so dangerous as it was thousands of years ago.

Within five years that will change.