Comments on: Cutting Your Car Use http://www.colintedford.com/downpower/2007/11/28/cutting-your-car-use/ My sustainability journal Wed, 23 May 2012 10:59:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Keith http://www.colintedford.com/downpower/2007/11/28/cutting-your-car-use/#comment-5 Keith Thu, 29 Nov 2007 06:44:56 +0000 http://www.colintedford.com/downpower/2007/11/28/cutting-your-car-use/#comment-5 Go, man, go! I wholeheartedly agree that we're too car dependent, and advise everyone to re-think how much we (especially city-dwellers) really NEED these bulky, unsafe, and high-polluting devices. While I admit that it was the very, very stupid decision to drive whilst intoxicated that cost me my last car (but not my license, mind you, because I am the luckiest bastard that ever lived), I highly recommend going without one. Sometimes it sucks, primarliy during the very cold months, and when I want to go see people, I'm still quite happy to have significantly reduced my carbon footprint (full disclosure: I leave a light on at night when I leave the house -- as a burglar deterrent, and I burn oil for heat, but I feel kinda trapped there). And I think it's really funny how people who live in a city as small as Keene act as if I've acheived some sort of superhuman feat by walking everywhere! -k- Go, man, go!
I wholeheartedly agree that we’re too car dependent, and advise everyone to re-think how much we (especially city-dwellers) really NEED these bulky, unsafe, and high-polluting devices.
While I admit that it was the very, very stupid decision to drive whilst intoxicated that cost me my last car (but not my license, mind you, because I am the luckiest bastard that ever lived), I highly recommend going without one. Sometimes it sucks, primarliy during the very cold months, and when I want to go see people, I’m still quite happy to have significantly reduced my carbon footprint (full disclosure: I leave a light on at night when I leave the house — as a burglar deterrent, and I burn oil for heat, but I feel kinda trapped there).
And I think it’s really funny how people who live in a city as small as Keene act as if I’ve acheived some sort of superhuman feat by walking everywhere!
-k-

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