Lots of these pretend Christian, climate change denying, maga cultists drive huge vehicles for status symbols. It'll hurt them the most so I'm all for it.
Pretty sure it will hurt more republicans. Dems are more likely to buy ev, ride bikes, or use transit. Pubs drive tractors to commute to their farm fields.
based on the title of your post, there is already a serious apostrophe shortage
There is no missing apostrophe. If written in correct English, the title would say "there are too many cars." Your correction would just turn one grammar mistake into a different grammar mistake.
Only if you can make the world magically walkable and bikeable. Otherwise it would crash the global economy.
If your implication is that it would get rid of cars, I doubt that. It would really just incentivize and hasten the production/innovation of electric vehicles and charging infrastructure.
It would provide a much needed boost to the horse and stagecoach industry, they could use it.
I don't get it. Fuel approaches $5/gallon which is about 50% cheaper than here and Americans already start complaining. It's cheap af. I thought you were rich. What's the matter?
A lot of people would die from starvation. When farm equipment is 4-5x more expensive to run, the trucks that bring the food to the processors and stores are 4-5x to run. Food prices would sky rocket.
It would make small scale local farming a viable business. People would plant crops like crazy. Many would leave the cities to work on small farms.
Standard of living would go down overall. But maybe in some ways it would go up, maybe significantly as rural communities are revitalized, more exercise, better health.
Far better than giving all the money to oil companies would be a carbon tax and small farms subsidy. Europe protects it's small local farms. They have better food as a result.
How do you think your toilet paper/laundry detergent/food/medications/anything get to where you buy them? If you made oil disappear today a ton of people would starve because food wouldn't get to where it's needed. Only way people wouldn't starve is if we spread out and everyone moved to rural areas. Kind of like how you can keep a ton of cats in one area if you transport food there and feed them, but if they have to produce their own food they have to spread out to find their own food production zones. There's a reason urbanization exploded after in the 20th century, oil helped transport all those things to cities so that people didn't have to live nearby their food source.
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