How much does it cost to buy, maintain, fuel, park, and insure a gasoline car?

No one said choices are easy. That doesn’t mean they aren’t choices.

Plenty of people in the Twin Cities live with only a bike and public transit. I was one of them and I never felt the massive disadvantage you write about. You just need to choose to live in an appropriate location.

Again, it’s a choice.

Little is from beef. Beef, while the worst for emissions per calorie, is a tiny part of the overall food chain. Grains dominate.

You will get closer, but I suspect your nation is simply too wealthy to hit the target. The UK is 2.25x higher than two tonnes per capita.

It might be achievable if you cycle, never step foot on an aircraft, eat a local vegetarian diet, live in a small space heated with a heat pump, and buy solely used durable products. Again, there’s too much carbon in the supply chain and government services like road maintenance

Of course, you are miles ahead of the US.

Gasoline powered car ownership is not mandated by law and every country has cities where a car-free lifestyle is possible.

It appears you chose to move to a small town near Des Moines. North of you are the Twin Cities where you can live car free with public transit or a bicycle if you are physically capable.

So yes, you do have a choice. The privilege is the money for a car.

If you buy food, you buy diesel. It’s what’s in the tractors and delivery trucks.

This is why it’s literally impossible for an American to live a two tonne CO2 lifestyle. Emissions are imbedded in the supply chains and government.

Well, as soon as you are eligible.

I have no interest in banning all cars. I have an interest in making alternatives to cars lower cost and higher convenience in urban areas while making driving more of a luxury item.

Increase fuel and registration taxes. Charge congestion fees but offer free parking at outermost commuting rail stations. Use the money to fund frequent, rapid public transit, and protected bike lanes. Bring back tram suburbs. Subsidize fares and bike shares so they cost less than $1 a ride. Watch air quality improve, obesity plummet, and disposable income rise in tandum with happiness.

Clark County already recycles waste water and places it back in Lake Mead. As a result, almost all net losses are from outdoor usage.

This means banning lawns, golf courses, fountains (yes you Bellagio), and evaporative cooling. It’s only going to get worse.

Gary is a Democrat stronghold in a solid Republican state. It is one of the most maligned, downtrodden cities in America.

I made a point of visiting it a little over a month ago. While it is certainly impoverished, I never felt unsafe.

Don’t forget Trump’s trade wars.

It’s almost as though certain regions have comparative advantages compared to others. When people cooperate and act honorably, those benefits end up shared.

It is this, but instead of everyone needing to pay for stuff storage, we took the value of the stuff and trade to a portable, simple intermediary called money. There’s a reason why money was developed practically everywhere with more than the most rudimentary economy.

I think he might have been into tbat.

We missed that opportunity. I will now go my life wondering what could have been if I left my wife and kids, and started anew with the foot freak in seat 23A.

I legitimately think he would have liked that.

Not a single open seat on the flight.

I was with my family, so I simply adopted a wide stance.

Oh it wasn’t staged.

I would say I don’t know the guy, but given his foot poked and carressed my leg at various points during the flight, I would argue we are at some greater level of intimacy.

Probably close to $1,500.

I bought alpha for $4.99. Same account 16 years later is being used by my kids. I’m easily at 1/5 of a cent per hour for the game.

My fear is that it’s 3x the ccs in the injection. I’d rather have three shots in three different sites than one with a gargantuan amount of fluid.