Walking out to Five Rivers makes me think I really don’t miss motoring much.🐸 Motoring might be the best way to escape the cities, get far out in the countryside quickly, but there is no good thing as motoring.🚘🚨

The greenies like to promote hybrid cars and electric cars🌲. I mean they must be better just like smoking filtered and light cigarettes is healthier for you.🚬 Fuel efficiency and electrification standards as a whole are reducing oil consumption as a whole but they aren’t making the enormous energy consumption, highway network, noise or run off pollution problem go away.🚘 They aren’t ending suburban sprawl or the carnage that motoring causes to humans and wildlife alike.

I probably should be an advocate for more wilderness areas and abandoning more highways.🌿 But I’m not. I’m really far less concerned about the impacts of dirt roads and a handful of car tailpipes then major expressways and bumper to bumper traffic.🚙🚚🚛🚗🚕 Wilderness areas tend to concentrate the activity of hikers and outdoorsy folk, while other areas are relatively unused. Many logged state forests get a fraction of the use and abuse of the officially designated wilderness areas. They’re a hell of a lot more wild in many cases too.

I have my truck, I drive it up into the wilderness of sorts although not what the greenies want you to believe is wilderness.🌇 They probably consider it to be trash land, a waste land of beer cans and debris, even though in my experience litter is few and far between.🚯 But it’s not a daily driver, I really do everything I can to avoid driving around town because I know urban motoring is particularly bad for the planet 🌏 and honestly you see and enjoy life much better on foot. 👣