Highway spending increased by 90% in 2021. This is one of many reasons why car traffic is growing faster than population growth.

  • FireRetardant@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    A car pollutes as its materials are mined from the ground and smelted into metals. A car pollutes when oils are refined for its various plastics and lubricants. A car pollutes when it is retired to a scrap yard to sit leaking oil until it is crushed and recyled (polluting through that process too).

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      2 months ago

      To be honest, I hadn’t even noticed that I was commenting in the “Fuck Cars” group cos I just responded to something that popped up in my feed. I’m not about trying to be disruptive in someone else’s house. I was going for humor more than anything. Sorry.

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      2 months ago

      None of this is true for busses. They’re made of and run on magic