I fucking hate living here. The culture is poison. The economy is a fucking disaster. The education is designed to leave a huge portion of the country illiterate. Every single atom of it is white supremacist. The land is all stolen. The capitalists are completely above the law. Fuck cars. Fuck America,
Fuck cars.
I really can’t stress this enough. Fuck cars, and fuck this god forsaken country where I’m forced to rely on them. My friend lives in one of like the 3 places in the country you can get by without a car, it’s a shorter walk for him to get from his front door to Safeway than it is for me to get to my car. The amount of shit that would fit in this town if you just deleted every parking lot.
And why can’t I get a train to a major city 2 hours away? I’m literally at the mid point between 4 major cities. But there’s not a passenger rail service for over 100 miles. Want to visit my friends? That’s a two hour drive on the interstate. Hope my meds don’t put me to sleep! Oh and it’s toll roads too, thanks Florida.
I hate driving, I hate maintaining a car, I hate having to own a car, and I hate what cars have done to our cities. Immediately ban the construction of new cars, roads, and parking lots and move towards the banning of cars for most private use.
I hate driving, I hate maintaining a car, I hate having to own a car, and I hate what cars have done to our cities.
unfortunately forcing every American to buy a car allows the capitalists to squeeze like a cool $20k out of everyone which is “good for the economy” I guess because cars are one of the few things we still make here. Everything in this country is a fucking racket it sucks.
Eco Gecko’s video on SUVs, “Vroom Doom”, estimated that a typical automobile costs 6k (low-end sedans) to 11k (high-end pickups) per year to own/operate, all told. That doesn’t include roadway spending, so it’s possible that we spend up to 25% of our GDP just on having motor vehicles.
And it’s literally impossible to undo the way we’ve built it, too. Yeah we can densify downtown neighborhoods and maybe if we’re lucky we can get a few intercity rail lines going in 20 years, but 99% of suburban strip mall single family shit hole america is stuck that way. We literally sunk all of our cheap fossil fuel energy into building the whole country like that and now we don’t have enough cheap energy to change it. Kunstler calls it the greatest misallocation of resources in human history. It’s a fucking bummer.
