The coming oil crisis is going to suck, but the one small silver lining is that when oil gets expensive, cities get better.

[oreulius@mastodon.social]

@notjustbikes

After years of living in the city, I find myself fond of the slower paces life has to offer.

I find the quaintness of the countryside is quite charming. Theres nothing like having such a peaceful life you in turn need a break from the quiet, to find the blasting in your face city rustle and bustle a good mental reset, and social recharge.

[fuzzbizz@urbanists.social]

@notjustbikes I feel incredibly lucky to not even know how much gas costs.

[fuzzbizz@urbanists.social]

@tehuro @notjustbikes Maybe the trick is to remove the cars entirely so it's easier for you to get around without one.

[fuzzbizz@urbanists.social]

@pseyfert @notjustbikes We want powder, not pods!!!!

[thecampbell@mastodon.social]

@notjustbikes I drive about once a week, in a car that I can't justify getting rid of because I'd outlive any breakeven point by about 40 years, with current prices. Other car that gets used in the family is a 15 year old gas-electric hybrid that takes 30$ to fill once a month or so. Reduce, reuse, recycle -- works for transportation as well as everything else...

[leslore@zeroes.ca]

@notjustbikes

Psst! The crisis is one of genocide & violent oppression. The oil hiccup is a byproduct of the atrocities committed by evil actors.

So - not really an oil crisis

[tooting_whale@ohai.social]

@notjustbikes You‘ve basically read my mind and summarised my thoughts perfectly!

I need this in German to show it to my relatives

[kkarhan@jorts.horse]

@notjustbikes unless politicans greased by the #FossilFuel #industry huffed too much VOCs and refuse to acknowledge the reality.and.instead triple-down!

[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]

@notjustbikes

I’d like to see that kind of outrage creating the same level of cultural change in the US over so many topics

[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]

@notjustbikes

You need to take a little grief falling for the logical fallacy that it’s OK to kill human beings and wipe out entire ecosystems to extract aluminum and copper and what not to drop in replace the energy intensity of the global economy.

In the three US states where adobe can be used as a construction material. You can build houses that don’t need energy to remain comfortable year-round without any energy and with materials that are right under our feet

1/n

[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]

@notjustbikes

Your premise is the same premise about car centric design, which is let’s throw really expensive. Long supply chain infrastructure into human daily life and think it’s good..

All the Engineering talent of the world is devoted to building out scale, which means long supply chains, which means energy intensity, and that scale that means burning the planet down or killing it otherwise

[zer0unplanned@friendica.rogueproject.org]

@notjustbikes Real picture is in the 1974 highway roads were empty in EU, not what you show there.