by frog
Spareroom found this children’s guide for life online comic book:
It’s a bit harsh. There’s a place for big cars but that place probably isn’t suburban commuting or grocery trips.
Published in Environment & Resource Management by frog on Fri, August 8th, 2008
Tags: cars, frog blog, frogblog, green party, greens, new zealand
on the trolls and those who are unable to keep on topic
judging by the amount of ’stuff’ I see in peoples’ shopping trolleys in supermarkets these days, I’d say taking the car was the right thing to do. I don’t think we can afford the health-care consequences of people carrying that weight!
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“There’s a place for cars but that place probably isn’t suburban commuting or grocery trips.”
The weekly family shopping trip is exactly when one does need a car.
Getting to and from the grocery store with two small kids and a family’s load of groceries is bloody hard work by public transport. Especially when you’re trying to cram it into your tight timeframe between work, dinner and the kids bedtime.
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I thought that with male drivers it was inversely proportional to penis size.
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Icehawk,
Why not just order online and get home delivery?
http://www.smilecity.co.nz/show.asp?urlid=422
If you spend over $200 I think it’s free, over $100 is something like $5 for delivery.
Saves you time and you can take your kids for a walk, instead of dragging them along to the supermarket.
Strings –
Only half of NZers currently get sufficient physical activity, according the most recent NZ Health Survey, and the percentage has been falling for the past 20 years. There is a significant relationship between insufficient physical activity, obesity and chronic diseases. Also positive correlations between car use and obesity, and negative correlations between living in a walkable community and being obese. Did I mention that obesity levels have doubled in the last 10 years? For adults and children? The health sector costs of obesity and physical inactivity are staggering, somewhere between 5% and 10% of the total health sector budget.
There are far greater negative health-care consequences from car-dependence than walking with groceries. In European cities where people regularly walk to get groceries (and veggies from open air markets), they buy less per trip, but they also have their own little wheely grocery-carrying contraption. It’s very practical.
Did I mention that in these European countries they have lower rates of obesity and chronic diseases?
Coincidence? I think not…
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hi froggy! did you see this page?
http://www.viruscomix.com/page363.html
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oops – sorry that last sentence should have read “There’s a place for big cars…”
Will edit now accordingly. Apologies.
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Sticks and stones will break my bones….
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Women tend to drive smaller cars than men so that obviously fell victim to poor proofreading and was actually meant to say “Car size is invariably proportional intellect”.
Just kidding. We all know the real reason women drive smaller cars is because on motorways they can talk a lot longer before those bumpy things remind them it’s time to aimlessly wander back to the other side of the lane.
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Heaps of folk in NZ need cars to get to a decent supermarket.
The elderly, the frail, ill and injured, and the many folk who live in the country, where there is no public transport.
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“I thought that with male drivers it was inversely proportional to penis size.?
Toad, I trust you are not about to tell us you done a survey?
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Including some trainspotters or steam train buffs as proxies for PT users?
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Patrick Starr said: Toad, I trust you are not about to tell us you done a survey?
Nope, just that I don’t own and very seldom drive a car. Well, a survey with a sample size of 1, perhaps.
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I own a BIG vehicle to carry all my kids around how does that relate to tallywhacker size?
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Wear and tear?
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ha aha ha ha!!!
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“Car size is invariably proportional intellect” of course that’s a joke that’s why i don’t take ie seriously. I can’t say I’m a stupid one although all me cars were big, once i even had a minivan
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