Texas asks people to avoid using their cars

But air quality aways changes
Man can't affect the air (weather)
There is no consensus
plants and animals adapt
Ozone is Oxygen which is good for us

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I’m not a Texas fan or defender by any means, but I do know Texans, and the state telling them to not do something will make them do it more out of spite

As a former Texas resident: The Texas government can fuck alllllll the way off with that. Design a city that doesn't need cars and people won't need to use them. Residents HAVE to use cars because the place is so fucking unfriendly to pedestrians.

I'm from Texas, this isn't feasible. If you need to get from anywhere to any place else you're driving there. Depending on where you are busses may be hit or miss & may not even be an option. Pretty happy to live in a place now where I haven't needed to drive for years.

I have a friend that works in Texas and his IT department literally forced all their employees who have been WFH since COVID to start coming into the office 5 days a week again. So literally the opposite of what this article is stating. Companies need to be held liable for this shit, especially if they have infrastructure in place to easily adopt WFH.

An ask like this means at best the folks invested in fixing the problem are inconvenienced, while the "fuck you, I got mine" contingent keep on trucking (probably literally in their Fx50s).

Pass laws that incentivize doing the right thing, or don't pretend you in any way want to fix it.

Meanwhile, Ken Paxton has sued the city of Austin for ‘misleading’ people when it comes to the voter-approved light rail transit expansion. Oh, and TxDOT is widening I-35 through downtown Austin despite countless folks protesting and some organizations suing them to stop it.

Transit across the state SUCKS. Bike lanes are never properly separated. Light rail is sparse. Busses literally everywhere suck.

Unfortunately there are only a few cities where this is a reasonable ask in the United States, and none I know of are in Texas. Most are in colder parts of the country.

The Texas state government's path forward here is to do what they can to pedestrianize and densify their cities, but that's a long term project.

In Texas? Good luck. This is the state where people express themselves by putting horns on their cars.

It's also the state where you sometimes have to drive two hours just to get to the supermarket.

Texas is what happens when conservatives have unchecked power to govern. People governing on complex issues like climate science based on nothing but “gut instincts”

I used to live in a very car dependent city and now I'm somewhere that I can easily walk or bike anywhere I need and get there within 15 minutes and I am very grateful for that. Our biking and public transport infrastructure keeps getting improvements, too, which is awesome.

If they want people to use their cars less they need to start making that an actual option. This is not on the individuals but the government.

People are pretty predictable ultimately, we take the path of least resistance most of the time. If it's quicker or cheaper or easier to do something one way then we'll do it that way.

Is it even possible to get around USA without cars? There's not even proper paths everywhere for pedestrians.

I'm sure my boss will understand that I can't make him a dollar today because Texas said not to drive.

I have nothing in walking distance. Not even a convenience store.

So you could ask me to not take a road trip or to reduce the number of trips I take in my car today, but avoiding the car entirely isn't physically possible.

I'm pretty sure that's all originally by design.

It’s ok Abbott will reassure us it’s all nonsense and defund anything environmental before they can do anymore damage to the god fearing Texan minds that depend on his leadership.

Oh! They're building more public transportation?

Weren't they supposed to use horses in Texas anyway? When did they switch?

Rules for thee but not for me.

What kind of liberal bullshit is this, asking us PROUD AMERICANS to stop using OUR FREEDOM CARS for some bullshit liberal environmental WOKEISM?!

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In Texas?
You know God damn well the response to this is going to be everybody getting in their 12 valve Cummins diesel trucks and cranking the fuel pumps up to the point where they "roll coal" sitting at stoplights.

A small personal sacrifice for the common good? Sounds like commie talk to me.

Also, can you guys cut back on the BBQ?

Yeah, that's not happening lol. Politics aside, public transportation is too shit for that and you'll just get run over if you try to bike anywhere that doesn't have a bike path/lane.

Oh THAT should work, LMFAO

Why would Republicans are about pollution? Pollution hurts WOMEN!

Maybe all should use 1 big ass monster truck with the biggest diesel engine they can find in it?

They don't want people driving cars because they want them driving big dick TRUCKS. With legally mandated truck nuts of course.