@blogdiva

Petrol is priced by the liter in Europe, and when I was there in the 90s, the per-liter price was higher than our per-gallon price. They used the revenue to build public transportation. I've been saying since then we should as well.

Start with a one dollar a gallon gas tax and increase it a dollar a year indefinitely.

@Uair @blogdiva I think that's a good idea; but do keep in mind certain problems; like people who live in places where there is no public transport, and it makes no sense to have any. And a dollar a year sounds like it'd be reasonable, but it's very not. After just 10 years you've made purchasing fuel go from somthing you can afford to do to being somthing that is an ultra-luxury, which is again problematic for those for whoem public transit isn't a choice they can make.

This plan could work with the right concessions made though, for those who actually need a car, defined along very specific lines.

URBAN PLANNING is completely disregarded in this country to serve the interests of the petromafia.

WHAT PART OF WALKABLE TOWNS don't you do not understand? it would entail ditching suburbanism for urbanism ―something WHITE PEOPLE do not want.

so stop rationalizing the shitshow we have now and start speaking of how to break the car apartheid of suburbanism.

@krutonium @Uair

@blogdiva @Uair I'm talking about people like Farmers ya dingus.

It makes no fucking sense to run a bus to the middle of nowhere for not many people. For them, cars are the correct choice. The majority of people I agree, it is not.

I personally take busses and trains everywhere, and yes, I live in a North American City. Canada, specifically, but still NA.