Cargo e-bikes generally have a battery capacity limit of around 25 miles (which batteries aren’t meant to be fully drained every time they’re used anyway).

Any suggestions that don’t include the use of cars in a carpool or moving?

Is “Fuck Cars” a pro-city/anti-rural philosophy?

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    Your case, though, could be easily solved with trains easily solved

    while I agree with a lot of your post (certainly more informative than the others), I disagree that the issue could be easily solved. There is a lack of political will (at best) and an outright hostility (at worst) to the very idea of trains and public transportation.

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      there is noise, pollution, crime, and wildlife habitat destruction with trains, too. In one area I lived, i could hear the train blow its horn 5 miles away - despite all of the forests in the area. A ride share program would be a nice idea - even if it only included 5 houses in your area once a month. A local tax service might be willing to allow you to divide the cost up amongst you all - if they had a mini van or larger SUV (many in rural areas don’t, though).

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      What I tried to say is that it could easily be solved in the sense that the solution to your problem would be easy if your country would be willing to spend some money on infrastructure, but that will never happen simply because liberal democracy is incapable of doing anything to prevent the climate crisis, therefore it will never stop relying on cars.

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        Then is the point of this community just to vent frustrations without actually changing anything because its pointless? I mean that’s fine, I guess.

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          I mean, most of the communities regarding any kind of politics tend to be pointless in the sense they achieve nothing, that’s what I think of /r/antiwork for example. I don’t think you can fight back the lobby done my car manufacturers within a capitalist society if that’s what you’re asking. I’m here because I like seeing posts that reinforce and serve as facts about how poorly designed is the urban model that uses cars as its main transportation mechanism.

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            I am an odd mix of being a capitalist (anti-fascims, though) and an environmentalist (naturally, that includes tree-hugging, veganism, and minimalism). Political discussion has its place, but in the wrong forums just makes some of us feel out of place.

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              drops of water in a bucket can add up to a full bucket

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              Let’s think about this in the terms of material reality of the working class. What kind of improvements have been? Has the life of an interesting amount of the proletariat gotten any better? In that case I think /r/wallstreetbets is probably worse than /r/antiwork because that people tend to steer towards different forms of rightism, at least the anti work movements are an introduction into possible branches of leftism which could end up radicalizing a few people. Maybe if anti work would have traction in another country, like for example India, or almost any from Africa, I could think there’s a chance of it becoming in something that could bring change, but since it’s happening in the US I don’t think the proletariat there can do much against the biggest militarized state of the entire world. Still, I’d rather this a thousand times before having a right wing movement having lots of followers.

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          Listing problems is fine, but constant complaining drives some people away.

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      While a country connected by train sounds unrealistic and futuristic for most Americans the exact opposite is the case. The US ran on trains for the most part of its history. Almost every town built before 1940 had a train station at some point in time.