While listening to a podcast of the Flint Water disaster, nobody has blamed General Motors for destroying the Flint River in the first place.

#generalmotors
#carslavery
#carskill

How a lack of walkable neighborhoods causes loneliness in America. #urban_planning #loneliness #carslavery
https://yellowscene.com/2023/01/19/people-live-in-cities-an-analysis-of-urban-plannings-role-in-loneliness/

Product unaffordability is the planet's only hope, but I suspect addicts will spend on their cars rather than food or housing, so it's going to be a while before the necessary and horrific collapse occurs.

#carslavery

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/19/even-with-used-car-prices-falling-buyers-paying-7point1k-above-normal.html

Road deaths in the USA continue to be the "outlier" because managed death is job 1 of the Automobile Industry.

#carslavery
#carskill

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/01/heres-where-traffic-sucked-the-most-in-2022/

Decades ago while the automobile industry entered its golden age of destruction, they got the Feds to build a freeway along the Lake to empty out the city and make thousands of sprawl developers millionaires.

It would be scenic!

#carslavery
#CarsRuinCities
#climatecrisis

https://fox8.com/news/i-team/whats-making-shoreway-traffic-even-more-dangerous-i-team/

Before the planet can be saved there must be a collapse in car culture affordability. It won't be pretty.

Hopefully we are getting there.

#carslavery

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/04/share-of-car-buyers-with-monthly-payments-over-1000-hits-record-high.html

Ohio leads the nation in making every citizen a car slave regardless if they can afford it or follow laws.

#carskill
#CarDependency
#carslavery

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/state/2022/12/25/ohio-bmv-amnesty-program-helps-drivers-with-suspended-licenses/69556271007/