Oooh, a prior oil crisis is what turned the Netherlands from a driving country to a bicycling country.
The Guardian: Do we want to keep fixing the same issue? Unlearned lessons from the first big oil crisis
As energy prices tripled in the 1970s due to Middle Eastern wars, Scandinavia, France and the Netherlands sped up green transition
Also because people were not accepting the high toll in children's lives that automobile traffic was taking, year after year. You've probably heard it named "kindermoord", or child murder.
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Yeah………
This is the US of A$$hats… ummmm I guess you haven’t met us?
There was this incident a while back called Sandy Hook (among other incidents) - that has led many of us to believe that very few actually care about children being murdered in this country.
Honestly when I look at a US city I see the Amsterdam of the 1960s. Congested, smelly (nobody had heard of catalytic converters), and dangerous.
Even today, the Dutch are arguably more car-addled than Americans. We have more cars per capita, and we feed them with much more expensive fuel.
But a culture change happened where walk and bike safety got prioritised. The US needs a similar culture change.
@CelloMomOnCars @MsMerope @ai6yr It's funny. Just earlier I was recalling to myself an accusation someone leveled at us "liberals". I woke up to thinking about it.
His beef was that we keep trying to take peoples' rights away, like the right to drive around really big, gas guzzling, major polluting trucks. I simply said, "Well, who says that's a right?" He of course took this as proof of his point.
I guess it must be part of the 2nd Amendment?
He never did say.
I would turn it around and say, "HOW COME I can't buy a small car in the "freedom!" United States? What about my right to choose a gas sipper?"
Example: Audis start at series 3 in the US. Not because Germans don't count from 1. And even those are nearly impossible to buy: dealers just push you to the larger cars.
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