Makes me titter for ages

An amusing thing about my hatred of automobiles - for me anyway - is that many, many people if they think about it carefully simply do not need them any more than they need, say, a helicopter.

The only reason they have them is because..... they are supposed to. It is what they believe they should be doing. That's the only reason.

This applies to lots of things and can eventually make me titter for ages.

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I HATE CARS
BECAUSE THEY ARE ONE OF THE MOST STUPID, STUPID THINGS
THAT HUMANS HAVE EVER INFLICTED UPON THEMSELVES.

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I like a bit of a whizz around a racetrack as much as the next pratt.

But one pound an hour on a Southend racing car arcade machine is cheaper, safer and far more fun.
Choice of racetracks too. Monza, Monte Carlo, Tunbridge Wells, the M25.

Ralph Nader

Well done Ralph Nader.

Whistleblowing about car safety for decades!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Nader

And another thing!......

And another thing!......

Cars break down far more quickly than we are lead to believe.

They remind me of video games. Very expensive when you buy them.

Worthless at re-sale!.....

Because they are DISPOSABLE CONSUMER JUNK -

that is destroying the planet!......

"A day in the saddle is a day not wasted."

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"La Corrida de Coches" de Don Enrique Ford.

On everyone in India and China having cars.

Why should everyone in China and India actually want a car?
Why the slavish imitation of Europe and America?
Cars are crap. I don't want one and never have.

Cars and Driving. Tuesday 20th 2007.

In my considered opinion, cars and driving are..er.. absolute rubbish.

The motor car in its current form is over 100 years old.

The petrol-fuelled internal combustion engine was developed by Daimler and Benz in Germany in around 1885.

Hence "Vorsprung Durch Technik" etc. Hence "Volkswagen". Hence "Autobahn"......etc.

There are NOW so many other possibilities. Monorails for example......

And also - more importantly - the petrol-driven chariot car dominates our global society as a means of transport and in so many other ways..... And in a way that now threatens our globe........

Like bicycles - another German invention - cars are a great invention but only if used appropriately.
At the moment they are well on the way to destroying the Earth and Humanity.

Even if they invented clean fuel technology for cars, they're still a stupid way for everyone to get around.

What is free about a whole civilisation that is entirely moulded around the use of cars?

You may say that one can't uninvent the car and things are just the way they are.

Well, as expressed in the title of a very good book by David Icke (written when he was a Green activist and before he went well, before he went a bit.. er...different) IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE LIKE THIS.

That's an important point about things now - things do not necessarily have to be the way they are.

In the case of the car, the society and the economy is built on the principle of mass private car ownership and it doesn't really have to be.

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Good to see Carbusters and other groups still exist
http://www.carbusters.org/



Car adverts do my head in!

Firstly assuming that you might part with thousands just on the strength of a thirty second ad.!

How weird is that!

Oh that looks fun and frivolous, I'll spend a few grand on that!
I'll buy a poison-emitting lump of metal.
Secondly the staggering assumption of stupidity that these adverts make.
They show cars driving through jungles, across hills and mountains, no traffic in sight.
What planet is that set on then?
It's traffic jams wherever there are cars most of the time.

Cars are far worse than smoking and are up there with warfare for sheer stupidity and evil.

In fact someone once told me that vehicles have killed many millions and continue to mame and kill millions.
Also cars are a very big carbon-emitter.

I WILL BE MODERATE AND SAY:
THERE IS PLENTY OF SCOPE FOR USING CARS A LOT LESS.
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For a wonderful attack on cars see this extract from "Autogeddon"
by Heathcote Williams:

http://cfu.freehostia.com/Members/colin/autogeddon/