Road Kill: Fifty Reasons why Cars Suck

Road Kill: Fifty Reasons why Cars Suck

Discuss.

 

Says he who has 3 motor vehicles.

 

Going car free.

 

Not live off the land. But if my wife and I can reduce the use of the Jeep or ANY motor vehicle we may own in the future, no matter how good the fuel mileage, yes we would sell it and go car free. I do not car if the car got 100 mpg. If we could reduce the use enough we would sell the vehicle.

How about you?

 

My wife and I do not have any kids. We have a modest single story home that is only 1504 sq. feet. This inlcudes the main floor and the basement. We have had it insulated and had a new heating/cooling system installed a few years ago. We are now working on replacing windows and doors to energy efficient ones. We have old growth oak hardwood floors with area rugs in 90% of the main floor. Linoleum tile in 5% and wall to wall carpet in only one room of the main floor. Thus reducing the need to operate an electical vacuum cleaner all the time.

 

I don't know but bet you can find the answers somewhere in this list of resources here:
Car Free Movement by Cycle America
Travel with Bicycles (Home)
Amazon.com: Cycling for Profit: How to Make a Living With Your Bike (Cycling Resources Series) (9781892495129): Jim Gregory: Books
National Bicycle GreenwNational Bicycle Greenway in action
The Carfree Census Database
Carfree Cities
Carbusters
De Clarke's Transportation Alternatives Page
Book - John Urry, Kingsley Dennis, John Urry - After the Car
National Bicycle GreenwNational Bicycle Greenway in action

 

I don't know if we are going to try and grow a garden this year or not. In past years we have not had much luck with a decent yield from the garden. We have tried a garden in the back yard and what is called a container garden on our patio. The dog ruined much of the container garden befroe we put a fence around it. Other critters ruined much of the garden in the yard. Having a dog helps control that. I lost count of how many rabbits she trapped and killed who were trying to get into the garden. The garden in the yard was out of the dogs reach, but she was able to get the rabbits if they were within reach. The birds are a differant story.

The patio container garden kept the other critters away but not the dog. This year we may try the container garden again and start by putting hte fence around it to keep the dog out. Maybe we'll get a good yield.

T

 

We can't survive with out them? Really? Then how did we ever manage to survive, just fine, mind you, before they were invented for the first 200+ years we were a country?

 

In regards to car pooling, ride sharing, etc. would IH or anyone else agreed to enforced requirment, even as far as passing a law that makes people utilize such things? Because you know as well as I do this is the only way it would happen. Sure there are ride sharing and car pooling programs but people are not required to use them, even when they should.

Kind of goes along with the old adage that you can lead a horse to water but cannot make it drink.

 

Depends on what you mean by living standards. There would have to be certian mandatory exceptions.