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$5,000 for an electric car. $0 for an electric bike or other PEV.
That same $5,000 that will (maybe) replace one ICE car with one EV could just outright buy 2-3 E-bikes that would completely eliminate cars from the road.
Have fun getting groceries. Have fun renovating your house. Have fun taking a load of household recycling to where it needs to go.
Basically have fun doing anything actual real adults have to do in the really real world.
I swear to god, you people who think that replacing vehicles with bikes is actually feasible are so laughably naive about how the actual world works that you must just live on a commune somewhere drinking ayahuasca and playing fucking bongos.
Bikes are great. Ebikes are great. But here in the real world, adults need to do adult stuff. You might as well be telling people that we should all be skateboarding everywhere...
Hi, I live in fantasy world. I get my groceries on foot, making multiple trips a week instead of one big trip. Sometimes I go to a bigger store with my bike trailer and my panniers. I live in an apartment (even more signs that I'm not a real adult), so no renovations. And for recycling stuff like old computers, tables and stuff like that, I also use my bike trailer. Otherwise there are companies specialized in moving stuff. Either on bikes, or they own the truck and deliver stuff to me. Or take it somewhere else.
I go camping with my bike in national parks. I pull my folding kayak with a trailer. All in fantasy land. I will never be an adult because I don't drive a car or own a house. I'm not even a real human. It's true that everything is made around cars and sometimes it's a pain to have to use or rent one, but most of my life can be done without it. We are millions like this. Just not being real enough for you.
And of course, the goal is to force you cycling everywhere and get rid of your precious F150, and not just motivate a few more people on kids bikes or into shitty public transit so you and your precious real life can have more space on the roads.
I don't drive an F-150. I drive a quarter-tonne specifically because I wanted to balance my need for a truck while lessening the impact as much as possible. That's called "working within the construct of reality" because as a homeowner, I need to make those kinds of decisions.
Have fun with your real life in real reality because of your obviously right choices. Here's a view from the side of fantasy land, where others made different choices, and are apparently not serious, and not real adults for this.
You're being silly with your constant assertion of how many hard decisions you have to make. I'm a homeowner too. Big boy, I pay four different types of taxes and all that. I own a car too. But I also own an electric cargo bike. I also take transit and use my non electric bike and my feet. Most of my groceries come home on foot or by (gasp!) delivery. The real world is not a world where you need to be driving fucking everywhere. In fact, it's a world where you should only be driving if there is really no better alternative -- and you should be voting in local governments that create such alternatives for more and more areas of our lives. Because the responsible adult grown up big boy thing to do is to do as a citizen everything you can to reduce car dependency to as close to zero as we can as a society.