This is a troll topic, but I will respond.
Even though I am a libertarian, I personally find cars to be lousy and distasteful. All normal intelligent people should walk or bicycle to their necessary place. My personal values on this matter.
In fact, I could argue that cars are often a result of state-influenced urban planning programs, which segment parts of cities for “residential” or “commercial” purpose. Most natural, “unplanned” cities have everything in immediate reach, even if third-parties find them ugly and distasteful. In the more “wild, natural” days of my city of Gurgaon in 1990s, everything was in walking distance, but the mess of large-scale urban planning suddenly saw the municipality tearing apart the road, widening it, segmenting various parts of Gurgaon, and then Gurgaon became a riddled mess of congestions, traffic delays, potholes, and makeshift shops suddenly concentrating away in one place, instead of being evenly spread out as they once were.
Civil libertarians might argue that forced public transportation and mass transit, through high road tarriffs for cars might be a bad idea, except that’s exactly what would happen if districts were privately owned. To make up for space shortage, cars would be levied tarriffs, and only the privately offered buses and trains of district owner would have preference. As long as there are municipalities, why not let them do the exact same a business might do?
SayNO2Cars!
Easier said than done, in the US anyway.
I’ve gone 32 years almost exclusively without driving. At first, not by choice and then it basically became a habit and it has long since become a matter of choice. It’s a choice I don’t begrudge anyone for not making as it is a VERY tough one to live by in this country. One state here is the size of most European countries so that’s one factor. Add to that the fact that our public transportation sucks badly (fuels, for both the producer and consumer are heavily subsidized here) and you get an atmosphere not very conducive to not driving a personal vehicle. In fact, it’s damn near impossible unless you live in a major metropolis (which, thankfully I do).
If driving a personal vehicle is more economical than not doing so, by all means so it.
I live in Arizona. That really is not possible, especially in the summer. I would have to carry around three entire outfits every time I went outside.
Please explain.
Thanks.
Its hot in arizona