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[–] [email protected] 45 points 5 months ago (4 children)

The Heartland Institute, a conservative think tank, argues that the costs of such green initiatives outweigh their benefits, suggesting that they impose unnecessary economic burdens (Heartland Institute, 2017).

Guess some people see everything in a cost-profit margin only.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Guess some people see everything in a cost-profit margin only.

Especially when it's convenient. I'm sure they would happily look the other way if you showed them the economic burdens of having a car-centric society.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nah, big auto has bigger pockets than the bike lobby. Plus, murica

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Auto industry manipulation of government is a big part of the reason the US has such awful, car-centered infrastructure.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

And thinking that way about everything is obviously the wrong way to go about life and will end up failing.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

Being European, there are plenty of profits to be made by switching to bikes. Well, unless you're a petrol station, fuck you then.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Anything the Heartland Institute publishes should never be treated as anything but toilet paper.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Same goes for any and all think tanks

They're all horseshit perversions that exist to push out mountains of academic-seeming material to legitimize whatever positions their funders want to legitimize to advance their interests

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

See Slavery (3500 BC)