No to environmentally hazardous vehicles

IN response to the article titled Carbon conspiracy, tussling bearing no solutions, at least here in the far West, a large number of drivers of superfluously huge and over-powered, thus gas-guzzling vehicles consider their machines to be a basic human right.

It terrifies them to even contemplate a world in which they cannot readily fuel that right. And comparatively quiet electric cars are no substitute.

We will continue to see parked vehicles idling for many minutes in moderate weather temperatures.

There will also be the odd choking-thick-exhaust-spewing vanity vehicle, a metallic beast with the signature superfluously very large body and wheels that don’t at all appear used for work or family transport.

It’s no longer prudent to have so much of society, especially our primary modes of transportation, reliant on traditional sources of energy.

But industry and fossil-fuel friendly government can tell when a very large portion of the population is too overworked, worried and even angry about food and housing unaffordability for themselves or their family — all while on insufficient income — to criticise the industry for whatever environmental damage their policies cause/allow, particularly when not immediately observable.

Even as bone-dry-vegetation regions uncontrollably burn, mass addiction to fossil fuel products undoubtedly helps keep the average consumer quiet about the planet’s greatest polluter, lest they feel and/or be publicly deemed hypocritical. It must be convenient for the industry.

But the world — very much including Western nations — desperately needs to behave smarter with vehicular fuel consumption.

Therefore, all need to forgo purchasing the most gratuitously environmentally hazardous vehicles.