>>1988767Well the trailer is filled with wood. Coincidentally I have a small car too. Trucks and SUVs could be taxed more due to their size but the choice to buy and drive them should remain.
You’re deflecting the point. I said cars took over from horses. They were more accessible, faster and could carry more. You corrected me saying that bikes came before cars. However bikes still couldn’t replace the lugging capacity of a horse. So my point still stands.
Cars made huge distance transport for the masses in relative comfort easily accessible. Anti-car/eco zealots/cycling fanatics want to take them away.
I don’t have a huge amount of money but I’m ok. I get by. My car gives me a quality of life and relaxation that I never imagined. And this is from someone with easy access to reasonable levels of public transport.
In your world I’d be sat waiting in the rain for a bus that may or may not fit my schedule, and I’d never get to experience being in control of my life just a little. The roar of the engine as it sores towards the redline, the power at my fingertips. I do not even drive much, but those few sweet moments when it is possible are irreplaceable. It’s the one time I feel free. Just a little. I know someone who recently had to stop driving and he feels like something has been lost, despite the fact he never really cared about cars or going fast or anything like that. Public transport is sterile and nothing you can do will change that.
Is the little adrenaline rush important? If you’re measuring it by statistics, no. But to the people whose souls it calms, it sure is.
As Jordan Peterson said, nothing screams freedom like a 17 year old behind the wheel of a V8 Mustang.
That freedom is exactly what left wing people hate. It’s fuelled by envy.
