A car is like a horse

In civilised countries like France :) , having a car used to be a bit like having a horse.

You would get it out every now and then - maybe once or twice a year - for long journeys to towns a long way away. And you certainly didn't necessarily have to own one.
For example, you could borrow one.

In the USA you almost have to drive everywhere every day.
To go to the local shop to buy a paper two minutes away on foot, you drive.
Insane. Unhealthy.

I am aware that it is a large country. But I am saying cars are maybe too dominant!

America is like Pheonix. Pheonix sounds like it's got something to do with the Pheonicians.
So at least it sounds like a civilisation. :)  :D

Cars are crap.

For 99.99% per cent of human existence cars did not exist!

I was thinking the other day of how much I dislike cars - depending on the definition. In fact I think all the time about how much I hate cars. Because I do. :)

Well I often feel bad about it for a few moments because our domination by these accurse`d objects seems to be to some extent inevitable. :)
And then I remember a fact that even seems forgotten by the most ardent opponents of these evil lumps of shit. For 99.99% of human history they simply did not exist at all.

An Inconvenient Traffic Jam?

At least 15.9 per cent of CO2 emissions come from CARS, LORRIES AND BUSES.

5.8 per cent of CO2 emissions come from non-road transport.

No matter what the PROPORTION of emissions may be, CARS put out a heck of a lot of CO2 ANYWAY.

The fact that the PROPORTION seems low when a lot / too much is being emitted anyway is not something that should really concern us.

Cars are damaging - to humans and our planet - and very strikingly UNNEEDED.

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Automobiles Cause Obesity

Cars and the way we use them are undoubtedly a factor in high obesity rates across the globe!

I am a non-violent Carbuster!

Usually available in several languages - as well as English/Advertising - I have been a reader of this fenomenal magazine - "Carbusters" - for over a decade.

The onslaught of the movement for cars - that seems to be the same thing as contemporary global society - has not really receded in its seeming belief in the lumps of useless shit that we call cars.

I have never hated any inanimate objects more than automobiles and specifically their exhaust fumes.

What about you?
What do you hate most about cars?.....


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Cars and driving - as we say here in Essex - are a pile of bollocks.

Cars and driving - as we say here in Essex - are a pile of bollocks.

"Transportuality: Cyclist."

Looks like we are to be condemned to another system of essentialising labels that describe BEHAVIORS and NOT ESSENCES.

This time it seems that we all have a "TRANSPORTUALITY".

The 30 year old male who was squashed - sadly to death - by a bus in London the other day was described as a "Cyclist."

He may have liked Pogo sticks most of the time!

Capitalist and Carist Propaganda!!

It is the same thing with sexuality. I find my being labelled a "Sheepsexual" very constricting. I like the odd goat too!

As for my "TRANSPORTUALITY" I am definitely a "Cyclist" and "Pogo-stick user".
I absolutely insist on being described as a "Cyclist".

EVEN and ESPECIALLY IF I am squashed to death by shards of metal in the back of a car (petrol-driven metal chariot etc.) in a motorway pile up!

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What would I propose instead ? - "road-user casualty"?...what does anyone else think?....
LOOK I am NOT feckin' Doctor Spock or owt  - I am just saying maybe we could keep an eye on things like this!...

The CAR SOCIETY is far TOO DOMINANT in my opinion! .... 

Mrs.T used the expression "The Great Car Economy"......

CARISM!! I am a CARBUSTER!!

After all, the BBC doesn't have reports saying
"FIVE MOTORISTS DIED TODAY IN A MOTORWAY PILEUP." Or not usually anyway. .....