FACT - fewer cars on the street means less 'greenhouse emissions'.?

Question

So why are states like TX doing actually less and less every year to increase and improve public transportation??

Answer 1

Ask the Gov Perry or ask Kinky Friedman, who is running for Gov in TX. Also, people in TX do not favor public transportation.

Answer 2

Your fact is correct and your question is right on target. The oil companies are not the only ones to blame. Automobile manufacturers share the bulk of the blame, as do politicians and plain old people, who work in concert to keep the status quo. A freeway becomes more and more congested and rather than improving or introducing public transit the politicians authorize more money to either add lanes to said freeway or simply build another one. Studies show that this only invites more drivers onto the roads and the sick process repeats itself within a very few years.
One problem a lot of the public discourse seems to miss is this: infernal combustion emissions are not the only automobile-related factor in global warming, nor the only insult to the overall health, both biologically and aesthetically, of our planet.
Freeways, roads, and parking lots, especially those paved with asphalt, spend all day soaking up solar heat, which is slowly released into the atmosphere once the sun goes down. By this process the earth is kept at a higher than normal temperature. This is a very marked situation in urban areas. The cities are unnaturally hot at night, leading people to run air conditioning units longer than necessary.
The rotting carcasses of dead autos pile up and rust away, their toxic life-fluids leeched into the parched earth. The auto manufacturers take the blame on this one, as their advertising coordinators sell the vain, keep-up-with-the-Joneses public on the sick idea that if they don't own the very latest Ford Excretion or Chevy ecoBlazer they are losers, not the fast 'n' furious drifters they want to be. Dead autos take up a lot of space on this planet, along with the detritus that flakes off of them. Piles of rust-running radiators, scumbucket bumpers, and derelict tailpipes all over the place. Vacant lots and even once verdant meadows are piled over with ever-growing mountains black rubber rings as the discarded tires reach for the sky.
STOP BUYING CARS BEFORE WE ALL DIE.

Answer 3

i own a repair shop,,and its that way every where,,its all about the money they would have to spend doing it,once it was up,and working it would pay for its self,but most bigger and smaller states don't have the funds it would take to get a mass transit system up and running good,,maybe one day,but for now we have to settle for things the way they are good luck i hope this help,s.

Answer 4

Texas makes money on every gallon of crude taken from the ground.

Answer 5

FACT- fewer eco freaks and tree huggers makes for a quieter and far less ominous sounding world. Why don't you sanctimonious wannabes clean up your own acts before trying to clean up everyone else's? It's getting freaking old preach, preach, preach.............