Betcha it's the 1/3 who bought one of 183,000 Ford F150s sold last year.
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We need to aggressively transition away from fossil fuel dependence. We need transit, bike and e-bike lanes, infill densification with non-market housin. The whole paradigm of fossil fuel based capitalism is just making us miserable.
A lot of it comes down to terrible city planning and suburbia. Our cities are designed for cars, a lot of places aren't walkable, and public transit leaves a lot to be desired.
-20c, Winnipeg, wind chill of -30c, a foot of fresh snow and you wanna be on a bicycle? Being OUTSIDE in winter is what's making us miserable, not my warm car.
In addition to convenient transit options, yes, I DO want the choice to bike comfortably in the winter. If Northern European countries with similar winter conditions can do it easily and comfortably, then so can we (same 15-minute video at both links): Youtube | Invidious
The only reason we don't do this ourselves is because we're so influenced by US car culture.
dude... talk to us when you tie up your man bun and actually ride a bike in -20C.
I have and I'm not a man.
Well that may be why you dont bike in winter. I dont bike in winter because a) the weather is brutal, often going to -20 and worse with windchill, b) You cant take anyone with you (comfortably), c) carrying anything heavy or large is a pain (like tools, groceries, refillable water bottles, d) we often have a foot of snow overnight and Id rather drive out with my SUV than shovel for an hour just to get to the road, e) putting kids on a bike isn't very safe with distracted drivers all over. Bikes are sometimes a solution for singles, they suck for families. And yes you can put kids on them but its not wise nor safe in this country.
I understand if you don't have time to do it now, but don't reply as if you did watch the video when you obviously haven't. One of the first topics the video addresses is weather. (Also, lol at -20/-30, it can get colder than even that in Winnipeg and there are still die-hards who ride their bikes in it despite the limited supporting infrastructure.) Anyway, nobody is telling you to give up your car. But it's selfish and unreasonable to deny everyone else affordable, healthy, and enjoyable commutes and joyrides because you only want to use one type of transportation yourself. If you want to limit yourself to one transportation method, that's your own prerogative, but you'd find there'd be less traffic on the road and less maintenance costs to the city if more varied options were available to everyone else.
Im actually an incumbent bike rider. But never in my town (Id get run over even with a flag).
I see. There have been studies in some places showing more people would like to ride but don't bother because of the treatment cyclists get these days, wherever separate infrastructure isn't available. It didn't used to be that way but nowadays there are even folks who will literally just yell at a cyclist for existing, and/or who get pissy because they don't understand you need some space to get around potholes. (These same people who harass cyclists want to complain about traffic and road repairs/construction but there'd be less delays and maintenance costs for us all if everyone that wanted to felt safe and comfortable cycling. That attitude literally make things worse for everyone, including the people who have it.)
We need transit, bike and e-bike lanes, infill densification
The sentence opens with transit.
Have you ridden Winnipeg transit? No one who can afford a car prefers sitting in a dirty bus one row away from a guy nodding off from his near overdose. There's a reason people overwhelmingly prefer the comfort, privacy and safety of their own car.
I wrote:
We need to aggressively transition away from fossil fuel dependence. We need transit
What you're saying confirms what I am saying. Our transit systems are shit. We need better transit, and we need more transit. And we need densification (as I also wrote), so that transit is efficient and reasonable. We need ways of organizing our cities that don't make the private car to be the most obvious and comfortable option. Transit and active transportation should be the most obvious and comfortable options.
I hear what you're saying but you haven't convinced me that people prefer to be in a public setting, over their own private transportation. Even if transit were clean and safe, I still want the option to drive when I want, where I want, listening to whatever I want, and picking up and dropping off whomever and whatever I want along the way. Transit will always been a poorer choice because it takes away all the freedom of driving which is why it will never be as popular.
Driving sucks, when you live near a bus stop or train station you dread having to drive.
It sounds like you just haven't experienced living in a place with good transit.
I'm not talking just about clean and safe. I'm talking about frequent, dense, and reliable. Good transit. In Montreal we don't even have an amazing transit system, just a decent one that covers only parts of the city, and I would never never drive to work except if I need to haul some heavy thing because who wants to deal with all that shit (traffic, parking, other drivers etc). On the regular I just hop on transit and watch youtube videos or read or whatever for 30 minutes. And that's at a place that could use a LOT (and I mean a LOT) of improvement.
"An advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport." ~Enrique Penalosa
Most of Europe and Asia would disagree with you.
Different country, different problem.
The bad part is that Canada is taking no measures to reduce usage like some other countries are doing. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/mar/20/oil-price-energy-watchdog-iea-emergency-measures-work-from-home-slow-down-on-the-road
A bunch of people don't need to work from offices. That would reduce the demand by a lot, and also free the roads for those who need to drive, helping those to save on gasoline. Back to office was just a way to pleasure real state and oil billionaires.
Even more buses can reduce the demand for cars.
The the whole thing with forcing people to work at the office is pure insanity. We definitively know from the pandemic that there's practically no difference in productivity when people work from home. It's just pure sadism, and there's no rational reason for it.
And yet the federal government already mandated 3 days in the office, and is now trying to get it to 4 mandatory days in the office for all employees.
It's all due to pressure from businesses who lost out heavily when offices weren't used, everyone from the cafe or restaurant down the street to office furniture to architects got dragged down.
One problem is that condos downtown did not reduce in price. During Covid, it was common to see half-empty buildings. People were willing to pay +2k in rent to cut on commute time and costs. It is nice to have a bunch of options at walking distance, but it is hard to justify paying that price just to be close to a coffee shop.
On the other hand, friends in the suburbs rarely do activities that benefit "small local business", it is always a chore to go out in sprawls areas with barely no sidewalk or proper transit infrastructure. I don't see the government investing in more density or better mobility to help those business. But you can count on them to force you to use that oil.
Basically, that's the main driver. All these office buildings and businesses around them start losing money when people can work from home. And since we have no imagination here, there's no talk of repurposing them for something genuinely useful. Like imagine if the government started a program to turn them into vertical farms so cities could start producing some of their own food locally.
Time to change with the times. We didn't keep changing laws to support whale oil when alternatives were found. Maybe a bad example as we do change laws to support fossil fuels all the time but i think my point remains. If you aren't selling office furniture, shift to selling home office furniture. The architects could, idk maybe design housing instead of offices. And tbh if your restaurant is only afloat because it was the convenient nearby choice, maybe it isnt that good.
I don't think you are understanding the problem.
Work from home hurts businesses, back to office hurts people. If we hurt businesses they might leave! People don't have that option.
Car centric country suffers when the basket they put all their eggs in increases in price.
...so crap on the plebes just trying to buy groceries and get to work?
fuk you too
That's not what they are saying in their comment. You're rage baiting.
Yes, it is
The wealthy do not give a FUK about gas prices
The only people that get hurt by high gas prices are the plebes
...and these articles, pushed by yankee billionaire owned "news" are designed to try to worry and undermine Canadians belief in our wonderful country
They are not talking about poor people specifically they are talking about the country on the whole, they are talking about the system:
Car centric country suffers when the basket they put all their eggs in increases in price.
Country. They are talking about the country.
Your analysis is not wrong, but it's a bit short sighted because it ends with the hurt at the pump. The "plebes" are being hurt by the high gas prices because our system makes them vulnerable to fossil fuel shock. Because the governments of this country have systematically built car dependent cities.
Maybe the country could have built a more robust transportation network so it isn't reliant on a resource that has had crisis after crisis for decades. Its these decisions fucking the plebes. The plebes deserve alternatives to relying on fossil fuels.
I agree - but your comment just shat on the people suffering the most
The same Canadians who bought 180,000 Ford F150s last year alone?
how could Trudeau do this? No wonder Katy doesn't want to look at him!
still blaming the little people and their trucks, while the actual cause is the predator elite class and a war they started to make profits on fuel
Its both
what does that mean? "fuk the plebes, they shuolda built more rail" ? Gee that's helpful
Also, the obsession w f150s being the root cause is an intentional play by the predator elite class to mis direct our anger towards ourselves. We are not the problem, even if we drive f150s, its the baby eating, child raping predator elite class
...A single private jet flight consumes a plebes life time supply of gasoline. Look it up. And these shitheads fly all over the place in them except they consume thousands of times more fuel
So get an f150, buy a trailer, go camping and enjoy life - once the elite class gets dealt with, there will be lots of fuel to go around, then we will transition to non fossil fuel based transport, and all will be well
I don't disagree with you, but resistance starts with your pocket. And also if you could visualize the amount of CO2 from one of these machines, and seeing how much goes into the atmosphere with 1, it might change your mind.
I think society as a well needs to change -- this will trickle into the elite class as well due to group think. And do to our intention of what we want to support.
We're like giants on this earth, and we have much more impact than we like to believe. And when you do a good deed, and you see the results trickle back, its a good feeling.
100% fuck the worthless elite class -- they're not more important, if not less important than those who need and are worth higher priority.
there will be no "trickling into the elite class"
It will be 1780s France for them
Maybe? If you give them all our money, then probably not. Look at Russia.
did you hit your head?
the plebes will not be giving "all our money" away - the predator elite class will get very very very close french haircuts, and their money will be re-diistrubuted
Again, maybe? However 1984 and robotic warfare could change that. Tools that need money and privilege.
so...arguing on behalf of what the lizard people are hoping for?
Fuk you shill
Gas always costs the same if you just put in 20 bucks
The Article:
One-third of Canadians say their personal finances have worsened in the last month as gas prices and inflation rise amid the war in Iran, according to a new poll.
The survey conducted by Canada Pulse Insights for CityNews found 60 per cent said their financial position remained the same, while one in 10 said their situation had improved.
Those who said their financial position had worsened were those earning $50,000 or less (40 per cent) and those living in Atlantic Canada (37 per cent). East Coasters were followed closely behind by those in British Columbia at 35 per cent and Alberta at 34 per cent.
Poll respondents who said their financial position had improved were those aged 18 to 24 at 14 per cent, men at 13 per cent and those earning over $50,000 per year (11 per cent). Improvement was also noted in Quebec at 14 per cent.
Meanwhile, nearly 80 per cent of those surveyed said they would be worried about their personal or family day-to-day finances, and 34 per cent said they would likely struggle to make ends meet.
A total of 14 per cent believed they could lose their job or be laid off because of a lack of work and said they would not have the ability to purchase the products they need for themselves or their family.
Nearly one in 10 Canadians, 13 per cent, said they would likely default on making payments on loans or a mortgage, and seven per cent said they are likely to declare bankruptcy.
The surveyβs release comes as gas prices were expected to jump 10 cents on Wednesday to 195.9 cents per litre, the highest since the summer of 2022.
Nearly one in 10 Canadians, 13 per cent, said they would likely default on making payments on loans or a mortgage, and seven per cent said they are likely to declare bankruptcy.
This has always been true.
But the ads I see all say that the Liberals are lowering my costs! They care about me! They wouldnβt lie, right?