It's a bit ironic that this shows up for me as "NewStatesmanAmerica" yet it has arguments that make sense only in the UK and even asks me to subscribe for £1 per month. Electric cars are about as...
It's a bit ironic that this shows up for me as "NewStatesmanAmerica" yet it has arguments that make sense only in the UK and even asks me to subscribe for £1 per month.
Electric cars are about as good as it is going to get for the US. A general lack of city planning means sprawling cities with houses for miles and commerce nestled into small pockets here and there - in other words, we can't run a decent public transportation system in most of the country. And while much of the US is still using coal and natural gas to produce electricity, so far it would appear that electric cars are much more popular in states where renewable energy is more common (e.g. California and Texas).
Sure you can. America used to have the most comprehensive public transit system in the world with our streetcar network. City blocks also tend to turn over in the span of about 30 years. It's...
Electric cars are about as good as it is going to get for the US. A general lack of city planning means sprawling cities with houses for miles and commerce nestled into small pockets here and there - in other words, we can't run a decent public transportation system in most of the country.
Sure you can. America used to have the most comprehensive public transit system in the world with our streetcar network. City blocks also tend to turn over in the span of about 30 years. It's actually not that impossible to build a transit corridor and let the urbanist density build up around it. This evolution happens on the order of decades, but that's well within an individual lifetime. You don't need to encompass "most of the country," just "most of the people who live in it." The population is already fairly concentrated around certain economic hubs, they're just sprawled out.
It's a bit ironic that this shows up for me as "NewStatesmanAmerica" yet it has arguments that make sense only in the UK and even asks me to subscribe for £1 per month.
Electric cars are about as good as it is going to get for the US. A general lack of city planning means sprawling cities with houses for miles and commerce nestled into small pockets here and there - in other words, we can't run a decent public transportation system in most of the country. And while much of the US is still using coal and natural gas to produce electricity, so far it would appear that electric cars are much more popular in states where renewable energy is more common (e.g. California and Texas).
Sure you can. America used to have the most comprehensive public transit system in the world with our streetcar network. City blocks also tend to turn over in the span of about 30 years. It's actually not that impossible to build a transit corridor and let the urbanist density build up around it. This evolution happens on the order of decades, but that's well within an individual lifetime. You don't need to encompass "most of the country," just "most of the people who live in it." The population is already fairly concentrated around certain economic hubs, they're just sprawled out.
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