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Why don't we also impose limits on the number of shoes, size of house or apartment, and use of electricity per day? I'm sure there are smart people who could sit around a table and dream up other appropriate controls.After all, who needs more than three pairs of shoes?
It would be ridiculous to require that. Many
families likely could get away with just one car but in other households both the mother and the father need to drive to work and/or to perform errands, and adult children may also need a car to get to their jobs or school.
In some families, both parents work the same shifts in the same direction and at the same schedule, which is great. Probably they don't own two cars even now.
Probably they don't own two cars even now.
But what about all the others?
Different directions, different schedules, and different tasks. Different jobs in different directions or schedules. Or one drives to work, the other one does family tasks, drive and pickup kids, does the shopping etc.Which one should abandon his/her car? He, who drives to his job for several miles, or she, who drives to a different direction and/or drives around to care for the family? Or vice versa?
Times when everything was "around-the-corner" are long gone. Today, even in smaller cities, almost everything is dome distance away.
Having more cars actually helps save the
environment, because those cars combined actually do less miles than a single car would have to do.
And it saves a lot of time. Either one person would have to drive around the other person or the person without a car would spend a lot more time time with some alternate transport method.
Using public transport uses a lot of time, so do others.
Since a person can only drive one at a time, I don't see that there's any benefit at all. However, the disadvantages are obvious
It will stifle auto production and the
economy. It will force people to select one vehicle to use for different roles. It will eliminate auto collectors. It will cause car owners to resent the government that imposed this limitation on them.
It will prevent families who use one car
for business from keeping a specific
vehicle only for that purpose. It will increase fuel usage by forcing people to compromise on selection
between an economical commuter and a larger vehicle for hauling. It will increase air pollution for the same reasons as mentioned above.
The funny thing is that it might not be of any benefit to the environment. It depends.
If a family has errands where two cars are
required, having only one just results in a lot of daily coordination within the family who uses it, when and for what, and a lot of scheduling issues.
Maybe even one partner driving to pick the other one up, resulting in additional distance driven.It is nothing but a hassle.
On the other hand, if some rides can be replaced by an alternative method (riding a bike, using public transport) a, even electric cars, and this is efficient and sufficiently convenient, by all means. If not, it's a no-no.
Other factors also contribute to the pollution of the environment and ozone layer depletion, some of which cause far damaging effects. In my opinion, those, alongside the one caused by cars, should be tackled lest there be very minimal progress to be recorded.
I hope that this was interesting to read. Thanks for coming around.