7Pm on NBC 10 - incredulous reporting on the Tyre Extinguishers action against gas SUVs in Beacon Hill.
7:30PM on NBC 10 - “Climate 2023” special, chock-full of tips that you can use to help the environment, that probably won’t include “drive less, drive smaller”
“Buy appliances that are Energy Star rated!”
“Thanks, 1998! I’ll haul them home in my GMC Suburban!”
Sure enough, we hit for the vegetarian-solar-passivehaus-electrify cycle, not a word about maybe not driving so much!
@bikepedantic "Brought to you by National Grid" natch
@bikepedantic We're living in lalaland. Do you go bananas every time you hear about how expensive cars are now, and how the Biden administration is betting it all on switching to EVs, and *nobody* mentions that the problem is made much worse by everyone driving compulsively and choosing giant SUVs and trucks that are super dangerous and also very dumb choices for city living?
@marionsd my paycheckerie demands that I bite my tongue on answering that question, which is a thing I spend most of my workdays doing
@marionsd @bikepedantic I was thinking about this visiting family in Florida. Flooding took out gas distribution for days, so a week later it’s still common to see empty stations and hour+ lines at the ones which have been restocked.
Most of the vehicles on the road get worse mileage than the pickup truck my grandfather bought in the 80s, and the median driver is doing the opposite of what we learned for economical driving: 20mph over the limit, crush it at every light before you panic stop.
I choose to believe that there are at least a couple of folks at the station who love this irony. It’s like the Sunday morning weather guy and some 20-something news copy writer, but still, the contrast is pretty stark.