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Originally Posted by Evans, Marv
Why not? It's the wave of the future when car ownership will mostly be a thing of the past.
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(notwithstanding this venue of customers fixing 'old gasser personal transportation'..)
Sure, less cars equals 'less pollution'.
Here.
Over fifty or so years the ICE has been refined to burn petrocarbons almost as clean as it can get so far.
There are a few more band-aids not found yet, besides electric hybrid.
True efficiency is actually hindered by vehicles forced to becoming larger due to added electronic requirements, private insurance crash standards, and CAFE regulations which actually penalize building smaller lightweight efficient cars. These a good ideas sometimes gone wrong. Sometimes manipulating economies by injecting bad policies. There is no universal application to new technology.
But there will always be a lack of viable alternatives of personal transportation.
For a long time...
Multiple train companies to offer choice? Trolleys? Busses?
Or limited taxi services? The NYC taxi medallions have lost almost all their value.
Cheap transportation for cheap workers to commute to the workplace drives the entire economy.
I will stop there.
This entire country was built on the framework of the national highway system in the 1950's.
All existing roads and satellite communities are built upon the same.
Yer talking about opening a can 'o worms there.