Me an my dad had a discussion today and I'd like to see what you think of it. What do you think is the best way of the following to help the environment?
A. Make gas way more expensive (like $10 a gallon), leading to hopefully less car use, and the extra money from gas (somehow) can be put towards other eco helping things
B. Make public transportation more prominent and more reliable (this is a is focused discussion btw)
C. Invest in alternate car fuel or create cars that run on alternate fuel (my roommate said something about cars that can run on water???)
I agree, we should cut gas subsidies and build transit, at the same time, if we only do one it won’t be effective. I don’t know much about alternative energy sources though
Whatever the method, it's not enough to make transit better, driving also has to be a lot worse.
Transit should be the default option that you do without really thinking about it, and driving should be the one that takes extra time and planning and you really wish there was another way. Otherwise we're never going to get away from the cars-as-default mindset that's gradually strangling us
This is incredibly true, transit is the only real way out of the crisis we find our selves in