Petrol is a byproduct of refining diesel fuel, which is still backbone of most industrial energy use.
Swapping out the energy source of the planet killing global economy doesn’t stop it from killing the planet.
The cheapest energy is the stuff we never dig up or burn. Or need to use.
The next time you need to do some shopping, push your car to the shopping mall, so you can get a visceral appreciation of the basic physics and the stupidity of it all
@GhostOnTheHalfShell @petergleick
We just picked up several days worth of food from a grocery store during our pleasant walk to the river.
Nobody with a room temperature IQ is proposing elimination of our destructive dependency on oil oligarchs immediately.
We propose doing the research, development and work to get off our asses and move away from that addiction. Costs of decentralized energy production are falling and every such installation reduces the power of oil oligarchs.
A car free community doesn’t need 90% of all the resources needed to build car infrastructure. It doesn’t need the land necessary for car infrastructure the parking spaces the freeway is the parking lot all that can be put to different use and all that paving over that’s resulted in the destruction of the living skin of the planet can be undone.
It’s quieter, safer more healthy, and less expensive for the government as well as the people living in the community, it makes local business more prosperous. All of this has been researched. All of this is known, especially by the civil engineering profession.
The industrial food supply chain burns 10 to 15 fossil fuel calories to bring one food calorie to table.
Being able to live well off of your region is by definition living within planetary boundaries.
@GhostOnTheHalfShell @petergleick
Yes to both responses.
We can build infrastructure that could significantly reduce the ongoing damage while improving quality of life generally.
Peter Gleick
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