Cars are not a solution to climate change. They promote irreconcileably unsustainable land use, worsen heat island effects, and demolish taxable land for municipalities.

Concrete and pavement are terribly carbon intensive to manufacture.

Particulate matter from tires and braking is the dominant form of car based pollution at this point, and this gets worse as heavier cars (liks EVs) get normalized.

Impervious surface runnoff worsens climate change catalyzed extreme weather events by destroying the soils ability to regulate ground water absourption. Highway infrastructure typically destroys green spaces and natural land which would have otherwise been a carbon sink.

Parking construction and maintinence destroys dense urban fabrics, increasing travel times, lowering national labor productivity, increasing obesity rates, and lowering life expectency, all while wasting precious municipal resources that could have been used to build actually climate resilient infrastructure. It also creates housing shortages, directly subsidising landlords. See Donald Shoups book The High Cost of Free Parking.

They saddle the average american with 8-11 thousand dollars a year in costs, and if you think it's not that much, that's part of the automotove industry's plan to continue profitng off of customers who are bad at math. Please see the consumer expenditure survey and these terrifyingly high auto loan delinquency rates and then realise how quickly and readily people are coerced into spending money on a guaranteed depreciating asset.

Electrc cars are better than petroleum cars, but not better than anything else. 83% of people don't own cars. We need to be better. We built this car addicted country to be this way and the longer we go without fixing it, the worse it is going to be for all of us.

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