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Environment & Energy

hunter

(38,328 posts)

14. There's nothing natural about automobiles...

Reply to OKIsItJustMe (Reply #13)

Mon Dec 1, 2014, 07:03 PM

Dec 2014

...or flying humans.

We could choose to live a better life but we don't.

Automobile culture is a violent and abusive lover.

I have automobile culture stories and experiences worse than my most recent long weekend.

Luck of the draw, I guess, all these dead and broken friends and relatives.

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Hydrogen Cars, Coming Down the Pike [View all] OKIsItJustMe Nov 2014 OP

Hydrogen Cars! Coming to a dealer near you at a price less than a ferrari! Warren Stupidity Nov 2014 #1

Please, don’t let the facts get in the way of an old joke! OKIsItJustMe Nov 2014 #2

Great. Let's do a road trip in one! tinrobot Nov 2014 #3

People always talk about the “Chicken and the Egg” problem OKIsItJustMe Dec 2014 #4

Maybe if Obama's first energy secretary Chu hadn't cut funding nationalize the fed Dec 2014 #5

“If these stations were mass produced they would cost a lot less than … ~$1 million…” OKIsItJustMe Dec 2014 #6

That's a million dollar question nationalize the fed Dec 2014 #7

You don’t have to sell me on this stuff OKIsItJustMe Dec 2014 #8

"Chu now says that was a "mistake". caraher Dec 2014 #16

On FCVs, Secretary Chu Changes His Mind OKIsItJustMe Dec 2014 #17

Thanks, that's consistent with what he told us last month caraher Dec 2014 #18

"We're not there yet." OKIsItJustMe Dec 2014 #19

So, who here is actually going to buy a hydrogen car? tinrobot Dec 2014 #9

I'd like to live in a world where the question is, "Who would want to buy a car?" hunter Dec 2014 #12

“I'd like to live in a world where the question is, ‘Who would want to buy a car?’” OKIsItJustMe Dec 2014 #13

There's nothing natural about automobiles... hunter Dec 2014 #14

You don’t need to convince me that today’s automobiles are a Faustian bargain OKIsItJustMe Dec 2014 #15

Why move molecules when we can already just move electrons? Gregorian Dec 2014 #10

“Moving electrons around” is not ideal either even with the best batteries OKIsItJustMe Dec 2014 #11