I like driving cars or being a passenger in them.
I also acknowledge their importance for society as a whole.
But since you ask:
Cars are not a subject but an object, a tool to me.
"Suspecting" that I "dislike" this tool does not sound like a coherent argument to me.
Yes, I hate cars when being outside them, because they are a major obstruction and source of pollution, noise and overshooting environmental damage.
I hate their artifical abundance, for which I am forced to pay.
I'm not sure what you are talking about with the hypothetical banana car and why you care about my feelings.
Seems like an ideological argument to me.
Do EVs grow on trees?
I agree that global warming is only the tip of the iceberg of the damage we do.
And yes, EVs are marginally better for the nearby environment compared to CEVs.
They don't solve the larger problem though and they still impose huge resource costs.
Subsidizing EVs (again) is putting more fuel into the fire.
In my country, there are and were already so many subsidies and benefits for buying a new car, it isn't funny anymore.
It's always being justified by the newer cars ostensively being better for the environment.
Even before there were affordable EVs, the government paid people bonuses to buy a new car and trash/sell the previous one with this justification.
As a person with a license, but without a car: this is disgusting and reminds me of 1984. One of the many subsidies for buying cars in Germany was called "Umweltprämie" (environment bonus). As early as 2009.
It was basically a tax-funded bonus for trashing and buying cars to fund the industry.
That being said, cars of course are only one particularly obvious example of insane policies.
But since you ask:
Cars are not a subject but an object, a tool to me.
"Suspecting" that I "dislike" this tool does not sound like a coherent argument to me.
Yes, I hate cars when being outside them, because they are a major obstruction and source of pollution, noise and overshooting environmental damage.
I hate their artifical abundance, for which I am forced to pay.
I'm not sure what you are talking about with the hypothetical banana car and why you care about my feelings.
Seems like an ideological argument to me.
Do EVs grow on trees?
I agree that global warming is only the tip of the iceberg of the damage we do.
And yes, EVs are marginally better for the nearby environment compared to CEVs. They don't solve the larger problem though and they still impose huge resource costs.
Subsidizing EVs (again) is putting more fuel into the fire.
In my country, there are and were already so many subsidies and benefits for buying a new car, it isn't funny anymore.
It's always being justified by the newer cars ostensively being better for the environment.
Even before there were affordable EVs, the government paid people bonuses to buy a new car and trash/sell the previous one with this justification.
As a person with a license, but without a car: this is disgusting and reminds me of 1984. One of the many subsidies for buying cars in Germany was called "Umweltprämie" (environment bonus). As early as 2009.
It was basically a tax-funded bonus for trashing and buying cars to fund the industry.
That being said, cars of course are only one particularly obvious example of insane policies.