“Gas prices? What gas prices?”
Even without insane and illegal wars, the thing about any dependency, including car dependency, is that once you’re dependent, they can do whatever they want with the prices.
Real freedom is choices. Better cities create choices. Graphic via the Urban Truth Collective. Check out our website here:
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@BrentToderian the weight of poverty, hunger and suffering.
Of course, we need better cities. And your initiative is great and important!
But as we say it in France: Paris is not the whole country. And gas is not only cars.
@NatureMC @BrentToderian All the more reason for everyone who uses oil to reduce the use to the bare minimum.
And taking a plane or a car because it’s ”more convenient” than using other means does not count as bare minimum.
@ahltorp I’m right on your side when it comes to moving away from fossil fuels.
But in my post, I’m trying to show that being able to do so is also a certain privilege. And that we can’t just snap our fingers and make it happen in the food sector: poor exploited soils need fertilisers.
We all too often forget about poor countries in our own perspective. Or the poor among us (a big part of social housing in trendy Paris consists of poorly insulated holes with gas heating).
@NatureMC @BrentToderian Yes, and we need to use that privilege. It is privileged people who use the most oil. Reducing that would affect prices for others.
The average person in France, even outside Paris, is definitely privileged enough to reduce their use of oil, or at least stop voting for right-wing politicians that want to make petroleum-drinking a mandatory sport.
@ahltorp I fully agree!
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