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It was 1990 when I decided to stop with cars, basically for environmental concerns. With time, I added safety concerns to that. Further expanded that from not owning and primarily using a car, to just not ever getting in a car. And over the years I've gotten so used to the idea of not getting in the things, that I cannot imagine myself owning or driving the things. It was more than one or two.
Late 90's to early 2000's somewhere I lived in a van for a couple of years, because even though I was earning more than minimum wage, it was not enough to rent an apartment. Even then, I just moved the van enough to not be sitting in one spot for a long time, and for the rest walked, and took the bus to work.
Since giving up living in the van, I've basically not even ridden in cars for a number of years. And I try to keep from causing others to drive around on my behalf. But of course there is a lot of transportation going on on my behalf, products brought to stores mainly, and such things. I try to keep that to as much of a minimum as possible.
Most frustrating is that when I tell people I don't ride in cars, I would like to say environment, safety, and because cars killed off every chance at a decent safe land transportation system like fejjport. But since I do not know of any plans, concepts, or projects like fejjport, I have not had a name to use that people would understand the entire concept in one word.
So I just mention environment and/or safety, but that is always pointless as everyone else I've met is happy with that.
Cars just remain a symbol for me of the environmental destruction of earth by mankind in general, not just from cars themselves. And I am just so much more comfortable in life staying out of cars, and knowing I am staying out of them.
I've always been a fan of electric cars when I was into cars. I really wanted one back in the 70's, and they were available, but not as practical as modern ones, and I was leaning more towards no car anyway.
Interestingly, I read somewhere the first car was electric. And as I remember I had also read earlier and saw a drawing or maybe a photo of a hay cart with a battery sitting on top and an electric motor. It had a different steering system than the modern wheel.
One thing to be clear on is that they are not any kind of a solution for environmental concerns for a number of reasons.
They still pollute space (sit unused most of the time), visual pollution (parked everywhere instead of trees, grass, other nature, and children playing), and are dangerous (causing resource usage for dealing with "accidents").
Less carbon dioxide output directly, but the point is to consider the generation and deliver of the electricity. If it's your own solar collectors is different than electricity from the grid, which means some of which was generated producing CO2, and the delivery is very inefficient costing on average about 80% loss. So every kilowatt hour delivered means 5 kilowatts were generated.
People switching from gasoline or diesel to electric think they have helped, but all they have done is put another car on the road, not reduced CO2 output. Unless of course they had their old car environmentally dismantled. The problem is the flood of second hand cars, and adding one more to it. So not only is the old car still in use and producing CO2, although someone else now is directly responsible for that, it might get exported to a country where pollution control devices are not required, or there is little or no enforcement of that.
Electric cars are nicer to drive I expect, and at least make less noise and smell, but don't even come close to the goals met by fejjport.
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