Because oil and car companies have spent decades spending hundreds of millions of dollars lobbying politicians and spreading anti-bike and anti-public transpiration propaganda.
I always hesitate to say it because I don’t want to come across as making light of racism and sexism and whatnot, but it feels like a form of bigotry to me.
And bicycles are ridden both by poor workers who can’t afford cars and the elite who don’t need to rush about in cars, so it’s a form of transport that all classes can be told to hate! 🙄
In the defence of the powers that be, the bicycle industry hasn’t been lining political pockets for a century like the auto industry has. Cervelo has got to look through the cushions and buy an election or two.
It’s not so much the auto industry but the fuel industry behind it. The same pipeline bringing you anti-bike messaging usually brings anti-EV stuff, too.
Why do they hate bicycles so much? I honestly don’t understand. What did bicycles do to them?
Because oil and car companies have spent decades spending hundreds of millions of dollars lobbying politicians and spreading anti-bike and anti-public transpiration propaganda.
Well I for one am against public transpiration. That would throw the precipitation cycle into chaos!
Drivers hate cyclists because they’re in the way because they have no bike lanes because drivers hate cyclists because…
Oil lobbying.
I always hesitate to say it because I don’t want to come across as making light of racism and sexism and whatnot, but it feels like a form of bigotry to me.
Classism is a form of bigotry. There are many forms of bigotry.
And bicycles are ridden both by poor workers who can’t afford cars and the elite who don’t need to rush about in cars, so it’s a form of transport that all classes can be told to hate! 🙄
Not even that, there are luxury bicycles as well.
In the defence of the powers that be, the bicycle industry hasn’t been lining political pockets for a century like the auto industry has. Cervelo has got to look through the cushions and buy an election or two.
It’s not so much the auto industry but the fuel industry behind it. The same pipeline bringing you anti-bike messaging usually brings anti-EV stuff, too.
It’s both. Toyota is the third biggest anti-climate lobbyist in the world after, you guessed it, some fuel companies.
They dare to not use oil or gas, so there’s a lot of money involved to keep people from using them.