I HATE CARS

• I walked for 45 minutes today back and forth to the place where I could buy two bus tickets to Portland for a meeting on Saturday and then again on Sunday to catch the train to Philadelphia.  We've been doing lots of walking at our house these days as we move to have just one car between three of us.  On my way home I was crossing a quiet side street when a young guy zoomed his car around the corner and just missed running me over by inches.  A man passing the other direction in his truck saw the whole thing and yelled "Wow" out his window.  Luckily I am still spry enough and jumped out of the way just in time.  I hate cars.
• Some don't yet quite get that we can't keep relying on the car culture and hope to survive.  Take for example the Sierra Club.  This U.S.-based national environmental group reportedly has recently accepted $26 million in donations from Chesapeake Energy, the natural gas fracker.  What do they have to do in return?  They are promoting support for electric cars as an environmental alternative.  Forget that building roads requires massive fossil fuels.  Forget about all the resources used up making cars themselves.  Forget that when you plug in and recharge your "all electric car" it means you are linked like a parasite to a coal or nuclear power plant.  Ignore those facts please.
• Sadly the Sierra Club could be working on promoting public mass transit but instead they took a dive and grabbed the $26 million from an energy corporation.  You should be careful which "environmental" groups you send your money to.