Thursday, August 26, 2004

Vegan Cars? The L.A. Times Cruises the Road to Ruin

By Mickey Z.

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  1. This is a brilliant, much-needed article.  Thanks, Mick.  Blessings in solidarity, Richard

    Posted by Richard from  on  08/26  at  09:05 PM

  2. Yes! You rock!  Thanks for not taking their hype and keeping the lines of communication going, we with enquiring minds…

    Posted by Charli Griffith from  on  08/27  at  02:31 PM

  3. Thanks for exposing the green frauds Mick, not unlike the Green Party these days, eh.
    Long live the END OF SUBURBIA!!!

    “...stuck down a cul de sac in a cement SUV”

    on the other hand, a new report out about Australian scientists will be able to harvest “almost unlimited energy supplies” from solar power in the near future by using “special titanium oxide ceramics”...

    Posted by Rhino Rick from Tokyo, Japan  on  08/27  at  07:17 PM

  4. Mickey, I wish you’d made this a satire. ‘Twould have been so lovely. Whether you know it or not, automobilia has pretty much castrated downtown Shanghai: it’s been made off limits to bicyclists. Businessmen, housewives/mothers, students, shopkeepers--all use bicycles. Now they can’t get to work or shopping or school unless they buy a car or pay for transportation. And yet the city has managed to lower its average temperature over the past few years one degree centigrade because of greening: more grass, more trees. Well, the vegan auto industry just blew that revolutionary idea all to hell!

    Posted by secor from  on  08/31  at  11:07 AM

  5. I inserted a footnote re the Shanghai phenomenon in one of my recent articles. It is a good reason for everyone to put consideration of violence on the table in addressing the worldwide options...to what is happening.  The Shanghai “thang” is NOT just another example of activist progress getting sidetracked.  As Jim has tried to point out...it is monumentally important, another life-threatening turn for humanity that must be confronted.

    Posted by Unclean Ox from  on  08/31  at  12:02 PM

  6. I would not want to live in Shanghai, I hear the dust from construction of new buildings etc is intolerable (bad air!).

    In Tokyo the criminals who plan the city’s future are building more major roads and gigantic shopping malls (they are all tied up with the mafia construction industry, cement pays well and their sclerotic brains cannot imagine that money could be made from a green economy as well. See Alex Kerr’s book: Dogs and Demons, a polemic that has many weaknesses but does give a good background on the construction industry frenzy that is destroying the country’s ecology) while also touting greener public buses (with private advertising plastering their sides, of course) which use somewhat less energy and are a bit cleaner, I guess. It’s a huge contradiction.

    Kill the car, love the bicycle and the foot. People step behind the wheel of an automobile and an unconscious process takes place whereby this powerful and elite weapon is at their disposal. Although most people would reject the idea that they would use a car as a weapon, many do so on a subtle level and drive in a way that is threatening to cyclists or pedestrians.

    However, I guess we should count our blessings in Tokyo since they have not outlawed bicycles (and would run into stiff opposition if they did) in the city center. Of course, they way the infrastructure of the city is created is inherently onerous to the public space, and privitizes as much space a physically possible, leaving people almost nowhere to exist that they have not paid to be!

    Of course, pedestrians are nothing to praise these days either, most, brain washed zombies who stare at the email on their cell phones while expecting you to move out of their way ( a new disease known as egotistica infantitus).

    Posted by Rhino Rick from Tokyo, Japan  on  09/02  at  06:34 AM

  7. No doubt your article makes a good point.

    But please explain how bio-diesel fuel is not “vegan”.  It is made from primarily from vegetable oil and uses small amounts of sodium hydroxide and methanol in the reaction to remove glycerin.

    Posted by J Dery from  on  09/21  at  08:40 AM

  8. I’m a libertarian/anarchist and I am a vegan as well. I will only buy cars with cloth interiors. Besides, cloth is alot more comfortable than leather.

    Posted by Brimstone from Home  on  03/25  at  05:22 PM

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