One factor could be that car ownership is more expensive in Canada and Europe, making the costs of free-flow #carsharing more competitive. In the U.S., with low gas taxes, abundant parking, and numerous incentives that promote car ownership, it will likely take a total rethink to make free-flow car-sharing a truly viable alternative.
#ParisAlignedDensityInsteadOfSprawl
https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/gig-car-sharing-startup-is-dead-why-is-car-share-so-difficult
Why build social #ParisAlignedDensityInsteadOfSprawl when you can kill lots of civilians with “self-piloting ships, large robot aircraft, and swarms of smaller kamikaze drones” which #GenocideJoe is convinced the other guys can’t do better.
https://theintercept.com/2024/06/17/pentagon-ai-kamikaze-cheap-drones-replicator/
Doesn’t address renewable energy or embodied carbon and 10% affordable would be low in the Bay Area, but passive skyscraper and school is a good first.
Utilities, who see fossil fuels expansion as the solution to transmission congestion, instead of efficiency and demand response which need guaranteed rate of return, virtual power plants and reconducting, ran up transmission fires instead: The fire’s size—1 million acres—was unprecedented in Texas. It was eight times bigger than California’s 2018 Camp Fire, the most destructive in that state’s history.
The Camp Fire was caused by faulty transmission lines owned by Pacific Gas & Electric. (The utility filed for bankruptcy protection the following year.) Already, Xcel Energy, a Minneapolis-based electric utility and natural gas delivery company, has told state fire investigators that its equipment apparently started the Smokehouse Creek blaze.
#RoadToSprawlIsPavedWithDeterioratedCarbonSinks #ForeverWarSubsidizesFossilFuelsAndSprawl #StopIntrusionIntoTheWUIAndRematriateLandBack #ParisAlignedDensityInsteadOfSprawl
https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-panhandle-fire-climate-environment/
Gladwyn d’Souza
