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Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 11:21 PM Jul 2020

Post vaccine/successful therapeutics, post hopefully fixing healthcare and racial injustice and

hopefully putting us on the right track with climate change...

Can we do to bring our spirit back? What good thing could we focus on.

Sitting outside and hearing fireworks everywhere. Hoping it's just families trying to bring some normalcy to their kids.

I am keen on high speed rail. Boston to Miami. DC to LA. Seattle to LA. Chicago to Houston.

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Post vaccine/successful therapeutics, post hopefully fixing healthcare and racial injustice and (Original Post) Laura PourMeADrink Jul 2020 OP
We need a greater push toward fuel efficient transportation. Initech Jul 2020 #1
Agree.. how could you spin that into a national cause? Laura PourMeADrink Jul 2020 #3
Probably all of the above. Initech Jul 2020 #5
Wow.. never heard/read that. Very interesting. That infectious Laura PourMeADrink Jul 2020 #6
Good to hope for a better future. triron Jul 2020 #2
Got to. Everything seems so abysmal, no? Went to Laura PourMeADrink Jul 2020 #4
Green New Deal efforts. We are almost out of time. GreenPartyVoter Jul 2020 #7

Initech

(99,915 posts)
1. We need a greater push toward fuel efficient transportation.
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 11:25 PM
Jul 2020

Last edited Sun Jul 5, 2020, 01:02 AM - Edit history (1)

There's no way in hell that vehicles should be getting 37 MPG in 2020. That number should be doubled or tripled. We need vehicles that get 95 - 100 MPG or more. We definitely aren't making enough of a push to get people to buy fuel efficient or electric vehicles. And electric trucks definitely can't come soon enough either. The sooner we replace the gas guzzlers the better.

 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
3. Agree.. how could you spin that into a national cause?
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 11:39 PM
Jul 2020

It could be part of a bigger thing? Energy, planet, environment?

Initech

(99,915 posts)
5. Probably all of the above.
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 12:29 AM
Jul 2020

Plus you could also link it to the pandemic since there are theories out there that Coronavirus is a natural response to global warming. Don't want global warming to happen? Let's stop using fossil fuels for good and make a national switch to use hybrid and electric transportation. Switching to renewable energy will help heal the planet.

 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
4. Got to. Everything seems so abysmal, no? Went to
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 11:42 PM
Jul 2020

my drug store today... Boarded up closed due to Covid. Watched the lunatic's crazy Mt Rushmore speech last night (huge mistake)

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