Celebrating Car-Free Day

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.)

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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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About The Antiplanner

The Antiplanner is a forester and economist with more than fifty years of experience critiquing government land-use and transportation plans.

3 Responses to Celebrating Car-Free Day

  1. werdnagreb says:

    Not that you are actually trying to make this point, but “a car causes more pollution before it’s ever driven than in its entire lifetime of driving” is just wrong. Here is a post from treehugger:
    http://tinyurl.com/2bsqha
    and the original research:
    http://www.ilea.org/lcas/taharaetal2001.html

  2. Dan says:

    #1, there’s an /a tag error in this WordPress code that truncates following text, which is why your post is screwed up. Not sure why but happens to me a lot & I’m forced to footnote.

    #2, you’ve used, yet again, a strawman with your argument about one day carless is super-duper fantastic forevah number-wise. Not so. The one day carless is to show reg’lur folk that they don’t have to be chained to their car.

    HTH.

    DS

  3. prk166 says:

    I’m proud to say that I’m pretty sure I drove my car on all 3 of those car free days.

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