Bikes are not feasible where I live. Temperatures don't go below 40°C until after 10pm for 7 months out of the year. Just going into town for groceries is a 20 minute drive through mountainous terrain, too difficult to pedal through in the scorching heat if you're not an athlete. Not even an eBike can go further than approx 10 miles in this environment. Heat and all the elevation changes drain the battery rapidly. Bike lanes and public transportation don't exist here.
So Lemmy can hate on me and my car all you want, but I have no choice but to own one. It's not right. It needs to change. All in saying is don't hate people like me because I have no other form of transportation. Hate on the corporations that pollute way more in two seconds than my little Nissan Z ever will in its entire lifespan.