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They are indeed less polluting, but not nearly as much as just getting around without driving. A comprehensive network of regional/national trains and local transit combined with safe cycling infrastructure and low through traffic areas are so much less polluting that it makes the difference between gas and electric cars look like a rounding error.

I agree, if you’re going to get a car it’s great for folks to get electric cars. My point is that they are not even remotely the silver bullet people think they are, and allowing that thinking to persist is killing us. We need viable alternatives to driving, and we need them 30 years ago.

Replacing gas powered cars with electric ones because they’re “less polluting”. Sure, they produce no gaseous emissions, but they make up a lot of that difference with increased tire particulates, road wear, and general pollution from the raw materials required. Don’t even get me started on self driving cars.

What we should really be doing is building and enabling as many viable alternatives to driving as possible. Intercity buses and trains, frequent intracity bus service with wide service areas, bike lanes, deconstructing highways going through city centers, etc. Cars have a place in our society, but we’ve made them the only viable way to get around and it’s killing us.

Technically modern insects are descended from shrimp and lobster, so this is bugs good vs dry bugs bad

Hey, some of us are competent.

That’s what clothes are for! I live in northern Indiana and ride through most of the winter unless the road conditions feel unsafe. The trick is wearing a second inner layer (easy if you go to work in a collared shirt or fleece) as well as a leather jacket, gloves, and bar mitts (keeps the wind and the snow off your hands). In the spring and fall I keep a light jacket and gloves in my bag just in case it’s unusually cold that day for whatever reason.

That said, some biking to work is better than none!

Oh definitely, if transit is available take that any day. This is aimed more at folks who drive to work

You should try riding your bike to work, it’s a lot easier and more rewarding than you think

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Not quite a clone, but Crash Tag Team Racing was a staple of my childhood

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