Can you believe it??
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Just a thought... but I wouldn't be surprised if the automobile and oil companies actually bribe city planners (any higher-up gov't officials who oversee the writing of codes for how developers can build in a particular city) so that they'll write those codes to FAVOR the sprawling of cities.
Because the more we sprawl, the more car-dependent we become, the more oil we use, the happier oil companies are. And what WE'RE left with are strictly-coded, lifeless, soulless, income-segregated suburbs, a false sense of security, polluted air, and the trampling of our natural surrounding areas. Smile (fakely), you're living the "American dream".... likely in a community that's been named after what had to be bulldozed to create it (Sycamore Bend, Roseview Field, Spruce Country Hills, Pinewood Meadows, etc.). We think we have so much "freedom" in the USA, but we VERY rarely have any other options but to have to use cars. That's not living free.
I didn't mean to divert the topic, but the root of the problem IS sprawl. It's directly connected to our oil dependecy, and responsible for much of it. It's all in the fucking planning codes. It's how we're building our cities. The majority of them are unsustainable if we continue in this current fashion. If you build a city, a civilization, incorrectly, there will be consequences.
- "just a thought"... ahh lol. nevermind. god that was long, for qbn.iCanHasQBN
- I just mailed you, BTW.Continuity
- You diverted your own topicephix
- i meant the topic of this oil spill.iCanHasQBN