The Antiplanner

Yesterday was car-free day. Or maybe it is this Saturday. Or maybe it is tomorrow. I don’t know; I guess the auto-haters couldn’t acheive a consensus on this one.

Car-free in Crater Lake National Park.

In any case, the Antiplanner is celebrating at least some of these car-free days by going for a bike ride. Of course, I celebrate every day that I can by going for a bike ride. (At least, every day when it is not raining too hard — on rainy days I go for long walks with the dogs instead.)

Nobody expects a significant number of people to leave their cars at home on car-free day. Maybe that’s why they pick a Saturday to be World Car-Free Day, making it especially easy for people to not drive. (To be fair, September 22 is supposed to be World Car-Free Day every year, but if they were serious they could have changed it this year.)

Of course, the real reason for car-free day is so that green groups can issue more anti-auto propaganda. For example, did you know that, “a car causes more pollution before it’s ever driven than in its entire lifetime of driving”?

When you read that, you are supposed to think, “OMG! Manufacturing cars must really cause a lot of pollution!” Instead, what I think is, “OMG! Cars are so clean today that auto haters have had to find something else to complain about!”

Car-free days also give Horses pollute. Manufacturing pollutes. Pretending to get people out of their cars one day a year does nothing to fix this pollution, and we are never going to fix it by reducing people’s mobility. The solution will come (and for most pollutants has already come) at the tailpipe, not at the doorstep.

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