jaykrownI'm happy that oil prices are going up
You know whose hurt by high prices? Poor people. Guess whose not hurt by them? Rich people.
CerebralHawksExactly. Based on this, and based on OP’s other responses, OP is basically saying “I want poor people to suffer so rich people can make more money” (off of new car sales with more efficient engines, or electric).
So my question for them is: is the income divide not great enough? If not, when will it be?
No, there aren’t.
Plenty of places have no other option.
People like you remind me of evangelical Christians.
You are all perfectly content to have other people suffer in hopes that a wonderful future will emerge.
If you want to suffer, go right ahead. Don’t expect other people to be miserable so you can feel superior.
yeah, let’s keep things just the way they are and stop hoping that societal changes can be a motor for improvement
all I’m saying is there aren’t alternatives YET, but situations like this could create a positive change in mindset and eventually infrastructure as well. fine by me if you want to be a glass-half-empty kind of person
So when people can’t afford basic life necessities today so poor people starve and go homeless, but that pressure has some unrealized future benefit the current generation likely won’t live to see, that’s glass half-full for you?
I’m hopeful for better too, but I’m not going to be happy about human suffering.
Climate change is an extinction level event. You don’t think that is going to cause suffering? You’re clutching your pearls at the idea of trying to prevent extinction so you obviously don’t care about human suffering.
M137“No, there aren’t.”
Yes, in a lot of the world there are. Your comment disagrees with itself. You can’t say “no, completely wrong” and then say “only in some places.”
You’re just being pedantic.
Obviously, the first sentence was mean as a rhetorical refutation.
Mimicking poor reading skills to make a point smacks of desperation.
And you’re being willfully ignorant when you ignore the main point, that for many drivers there are no good options.