I’m so burnt out on driving. I hate car-focused infrastructure/transportation. I drive 35+ min to work and 40+ min home. Switching to an electric vehicle (which I can’t afford) doesn’t really help me improve the environment.
The carbon cost of creating electric vehicles is much higher than using a used gas or hybrid car. Slave labor is often used to extract lithium for batteries.
We need public transportation, walkable cities, alternative modes of travelling to work and other places.
If we lived in a socialist society where a labor pool of unemployed people isn’t required to threaten overworked, underpaid, heavily exploited workers, people wouldn’t be desperately looking for work, even if it means they would have to drive 1-2 hours plus in a deindustrialized, hyper-imperialist hellhole. We could allocate workers to work based on proximity and skillset. Win-win for workers, efficiency, and the environment.
Working less hours and more remote work would have a massive impact on the environment, as we have seen during COVID.
I plan to get motorcycle lessons to get a license and buy an electric motorcycle for economical reasons to survive in a capitalist society. My goal is to avoid any “smart” tech where I am forced to use a proprietary phone app with the vehicle (which is unfortunately very common). Funny enough, electric motorcycles don’t count for a tax deduction in the US, but only a select few (mostly) large heavy SUV electric vehicles which are magnitudes worse for the environment. Electric cars just help big car industries, the government doesn’t give a crap about humanity burning alive on this planet.
I’m also nervous about the surveillance tech that has been mandated by the US to be added to vehicles in the coming years (for example (I’m not against anti-drunk and distracted driving prevention tech in vehicles in a socialist society, though, but I believe it wouldn’t be a priority or possibly even necessary if we utilized other measures to prevent traffic deaths magnified by car-focused infrastructure)) as I predict it will be abused by police and the ruling class.
A Chinese EV would potentially be more affordable for me, but of course the US is not going to allow their citizens access to cheaper EVs that will compete against other car manufacturers here, and I don’t believe I have to mention the Cold War 2.0 we are in with China.
I’m so burnt out on driving. I hate car-focused infrastructure/transportation. I drive 35+ min to work and 40+ min home. Switching to an electric vehicle (which I can’t afford) doesn’t really help me improve the environment.
The carbon cost of creating electric vehicles is much higher than using a used gas or hybrid car. Slave labor is often used to extract lithium for batteries.
We need public transportation, walkable cities, alternative modes of travelling to work and other places.
If we lived in a socialist society where a labor pool of unemployed people isn’t required to threaten overworked, underpaid, heavily exploited workers, people wouldn’t be desperately looking for work, even if it means they would have to drive 1-2 hours plus in a deindustrialized, hyper-imperialist hellhole. We could allocate workers to work based on proximity and skillset. Win-win for workers, efficiency, and the environment.
Working less hours and more remote work would have a massive impact on the environment, as we have seen during COVID.
I plan to get motorcycle lessons to get a license and buy an electric motorcycle for economical reasons to survive in a capitalist society. My goal is to avoid any “smart” tech where I am forced to use a proprietary phone app with the vehicle (which is unfortunately very common). Funny enough, electric motorcycles don’t count for a tax deduction in the US, but only a select few (mostly) large heavy SUV electric vehicles which are magnitudes worse for the environment. Electric cars just help big car industries, the government doesn’t give a crap about humanity burning alive on this planet.
I’m also nervous about the surveillance tech that has been mandated by the US to be added to vehicles in the coming years (for example (I’m not against anti-drunk and distracted driving prevention tech in vehicles in a socialist society, though, but I believe it wouldn’t be a priority or possibly even necessary if we utilized other measures to prevent traffic deaths magnified by car-focused infrastructure)) as I predict it will be abused by police and the ruling class.
A Chinese EV would potentially be more affordable for me, but of course the US is not going to allow their citizens access to cheaper EVs that will compete against other car manufacturers here, and I don’t believe I have to mention the Cold War 2.0 we are in with China.