Sam Hamad is running for Mayor of Quebec City.

  • resipsaloquitur@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    Because every bike is a car off the road. Every car off the road is a car out of your way.

    Or a mitigation against the climate apocalypse, take your pick.

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      Also because cars create a huge number of negative externalities that impose additional costs on society as a whole. Pollution, climate damage, accidents, wear and tear on roads and other infrastructure, increased public transit costs because transit has to contend with traffic, etc. As someone who does drive, I absolutely should be made to pay for those costs.

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    sounds good for me. tax cars for all costs of roads and disposal and tax gas for all pollution caused by gas and disposal (lets treat disposal as all extrenalities).

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      Singapore has one of the best transit systems in the world, and owning a car is so expensive that it’s more of a status symbol than anything.