Oh, don't get me wrong folks, I neither advocate for car-free nor sneer at decisions made concerning personal transportation.
Our host has ongoing discussions relating to the the decline of industrial civilization due to the slow exhaustion of it's principal energy source. This here venue discusses the practical and human-scale means of coping with a economy that does more looking back at the "good old days" than preparing for a constrained future.
In a sense, I think that the other two comments made to my original comment illustrate the current state of affairs. Michele7 is semi-rural and our host is seriously urban. Both have managed to figure out workable personal choices.
I asked Grok (another piece at my place forthcoming concerning "AI") about the population distribution here in 'murca. Apparently, the best guess is that there is a 70/30 "urban/outside of urban" distribution of population. The folks in the minority of that classification are more tightly constrained in their choices.
I think that the "car culture" which for some reason is synonymous with "the good old days" is going to be be examined closely as a part of a plan for frugality.
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Re: intersection of frugality and the automobile
Date: 2025-05-17 04:12 pm (UTC)Our host has ongoing discussions relating to the the decline of industrial civilization due to the slow exhaustion of it's principal energy source. This here venue discusses the practical and human-scale means of coping with a economy that does more looking back at the "good old days" than preparing for a constrained future.
In a sense, I think that the other two comments made to my original comment illustrate the current state of affairs. Michele7 is semi-rural and our host is seriously urban. Both have managed to figure out workable personal choices.
I asked Grok (another piece at my place forthcoming concerning "AI") about the population distribution here in 'murca. Apparently, the best guess is that there is a 70/30 "urban/outside of urban" distribution of population. The folks in the minority of that classification are more tightly constrained in their choices.
I think that the "car culture" which for some reason is synonymous with "the good old days" is going to be be examined closely as a part of a plan for frugality.