Oh for the love of god; Ban the car?

[Zabo]

http://www.banthecar.com/



The result of a bored morning's worth of google searching brought this up. Proof that humanity is inherently stupid.

[Matster]

Ya and lets all wear hemp togas and flowers in our hair, join hands and sing coombia while passing a doob around the circle.

[patriotpa]

From his website: "I've been an anti-car activist for decades with Friends of The Earth, Greenpeace, local groups

1. That makes him a known terrorist.

2. He's a nut.

Definitely a candidate for a nice, white "hug me" coat.

[Camaro509]

Originally Posted by patriotpa

From his website: "I've been an anti-car activist for decades with Friends of The Earth, Greenpeace, local groups

1. That makes him a known terrorist.

2. He's a nut.

Definitely a candidate for a nice, white "hug me" coat.

The unfortunate part of all this if he he could write it up to sound not so crazy, it'll gain ground support and be a reality in a few decades...hell, half of Kalifornicationstan is already there

[Zabo]

REACTION TO A BAN

The worst reaction to any national government that embraced a car ban policy is the most predictable, punitive international financial measures prompted by the automotive industry bloc, one would hope that markets are not monolithic in this reaction and the novelty and insight into actual future conditions would also trigger new investment inflows.

Another reaction would be capital flight, if from local government this would need a state/provincial government ban to prevent subversion, a state ban would need national government ban. In theory a national ban would need an international one to cover it; but lacking global government flight from a nation should still reverse eventually due to global deterioration in oil supply and need for an operational urban workforce. It could yield a comparative advantage within decades as car based cities grow increasingly dysfunctional. Governments are not good at keeping such faith and one would expect vacillation from the ban policy; but the oil crisis really won't be that long in arriving.

Even if changing cities doesn't allow evasion of the ban because of overriding similitude of legislation, a geographic ban still leaves people free to relocate homes and businesses in country areas outside the ban area. Many elite bourgeoisies, who currently refer to anyone dependent on public transport as a "captive", would doubtless do this from ingrained perceptions and ideology. This is as it must be, some would be unable to reconcile to the new dispensation and this safety valve must be left open. Proscribed car city commuting would limit their environmental & resource impact, lower middle class emulation would be minimal as cheaper child-safe housing would be available in infill developments and their numbers would dwindle generationally from absence of the business and domestic benefits of urban living, which developed before the car age and would revive in its absence. Even the most car based landscape, the endless low density housing of California, would lose its gloss were car access to urban San Francisco and Los Angeles curtailed, and fashionable lifestyle options would trend toward infill developments.

However those who engage in this flight, possibly to car based microurbia, may be sufficiently numerous to pose the same problem for the metropolis as a whole as is posed currently to inner suburbs by the doughnut effect, city populations becoming disproportionately dominated by poorer, less rate paying people. Infill land sales, assets currently tied up by the car culture, would probably be required to prop up urban revenues for a decade or so. Any more aggressive reaction, mass drivethroughs or whatever, would need to have force met with force.

Can anyone say.. Eco-terrorist?

[Oldrocker]

Jedidiah, Malachi and I have been telling Folks for decades that these car things ain't hip. Got to get back to my plowin'.

[Mr. Wyndham]

Tell ya what...they can ban our cars....if they can catch us!!!!

Still, though...that anybody is so niave, not to mention clinically asinine, to think that this is practical, or helpful in any sense of the terms seriously needs to fall of one of their beloved trees. Because I don't want to pay for their mental rehabilitation.

[MrIcky]

I just want to ban everyone's car but mine so I can get to work faster.

[Zabo]

Originally Posted by MrIcky

I just want to ban everyone's car but mine so I can get to work faster.

I like that line of think-...

Wait a minute..

[Revo1]

It takes a brave person to propose something like this. HE ALONE, TAKES A STAND AGAINST POLLUTION, AND GAS STATIONS, AND HIS MOM GETTING TO HER JOB SO THAT SHE CAN CONTINUE TO BUY HIM THOSE COFFEE CAKES HE LOVES SO MUCH... This man is an icon. A warrior, even, of his time. And I have found this man.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE GREEN KNIGHT!!!

[Revo1]

Bask in the glory of the Green Knight's presence, as he sits upon his mighty throne!!!



Oh, to hear the thunderous call of his voice, would be to achieve utter enlightenment...

"...MOM! I'm off to fight transportation! We better have some more Crunch Berries in the house by the time I get back!"


(Swoop)
To the Knightrider!!!!!!!!!




Yes ladies and gentlemen, there he goes, off to fight the good fight against basically the entire planet.... Brave warrior, make mother proud. We will all be watching... waiting... hoping... That you get hit by a bus.

[MrIcky]

[Armsman]

Originally Posted by MrIcky

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That CAN'T be real. Cap would NEVER ride a Segway! It's an evil plot!

[MrIcky]

Cap is throwing shields for lower smog emission now.