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They really want us to love cars. But why would we love being car dependent?

Dependency is never freedom. Mobility freedom comes from mobility choices.

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[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Even ignoring that most people couldn't maintain their cars for shit; people always seem to forget that they're still super dependent on petrol and the oil industry. How is that in any way better than relying on governments to provide public transit?

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 1 points 9 minutes ago* (last edited 8 minutes ago)

My favourite is the preppers with the massive gas guzzling truck and relying on disiel farm equipment. Like sure in theory you could make it run on ethanol or organic oils, but you'd be better off making it that way before SHTF.