Jay Leno’s star power wasn’t enough to persuade a California legislative committee to pass a measure to allow owners of classic cars like him to be exempted from the state’s rigorous smog-check requirements.

Imagine being rich and famous and this is your political cause. What an effing creep.

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[+] 6 points 1 year ago (10 children)
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    They mean a large garage takes up land, after so many houses with a giant garage you could have space for dense housing which is proven to be better for the environment. Urban sprawl is a waste in many areas.

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    Its exactly what they wrote ...we have as much land devoted to housing cars as people etc. The inference meaning it is inefficient use of land, and everyone knows urban sprawl is a terrible waste and creates additional costs

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    Find it because that's not what I see, seems your are paraphrasing

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    Heh. Well, these modern communicatin methods only survive by the discourse created within them. So kudos for participating :) But what you pasted is different than what you said "leaving a car in a garage is environmentally devastating". They are talking plural and systemic, as you read the first line and past the first sentence. As our world population grows and we run out of habitable space, car storage will start to take a back seat.

    When I lived in Ontario in a few cities with lits of developable space people built 2-4 car garages, and shopping places had giant parking lots. Here in BC where livable land is more finite underground parking is common for housing units and stores. But that is still wasted space and effort, compared to European cities that have amazing public transit.

    Anyway, I realize I can be pedantic, so I hope you have a good Monday.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Of course it’s silly when you can’t actually understand the words you read.

    Look outside at all the land used to park cars and the point of their comment should be painfully clear.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Looks like a lot of people down voting can't fathom land use efficiencies

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    Or scale. “Leaving a car in a garage is jot environmentally devastating” is true but they also show that they can’t think of what would happen if hundreds of thousands of people started needing parking spaces. It’s always “I’m not personally hurting anyone so should be able to do whatever I want” and never “my activity participates in a net negative and I should seek to figure out if I really need to do continue doing it”.

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