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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.
And thinking that way about everything is obviously the wrong way to go about life and will end up failing.
Nah, big auto has bigger pockets than the bike lobby. Plus, murica
Auto industry manipulation of government is a big part of the reason the US has such awful, car-centered infrastructure.
Being European, there are plenty of profits to be made by switching to bikes. Well, unless you're a petrol station, fuck you then.
Anything the Heartland Institute publishes should never be treated as anything but toilet paper.
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
See Slavery (3500 BC)