This is not that bold. And it is not Uber. It's more just looking at the facts and realizing it's way past time to act. Here are some facts: Vermonters drove many kilometers solo in their cars. Vermonters spent a lot of money on their cars. Vermonters spent many hours in traffic delays...solo in their cars. Vermont cars spend most of their time just taking up space and idly depreciating. Vermont has many lane kilometers (lane miles) of Interstate, Limited Access, State Highway; and, Class 1-4 Town Highway, which are empty most of the time. While we have been driving, other people around the world have been living lightly and more economically. We have a lot of catching up to do, and we can't if we are still driving cars. The goal for everyone -- in every measure -- is zero. Zero fatalities. Zero impact. Zero emissions. Zero combustion. If there is a bold idea here, it is the realization that zero combustion means eliminating all internal combustion engine vehicles from Verm

TL;DR: The insurmountable problem with electric cars is that they are cars. Phil Scott got a new truck. Brenda Siegel wants it too, and also wants everyone else to get an electric car. The F150 Lightning is a fine pickup truck, I'm sure. But will the planet survive 8 going on 10 billion people cruising around in electric vehicles? Clearly, no. Phil and Brenda just don't get it. It doesn't matter how green a car is. It could have zero embodied emissions from production and zero emission during its operating life. It could be free of mining, shipping, and casualty costs. It's the fact that it's an automobile with tires , one that takes up space and infrastructure, in a garage or rolling down a road -- fundamentally incompatible with a living planet.  Roads themselves are sufficiently damaging to make everything else associated with them unacceptably unsustainable. Vermont's rural road system is the worst of the worst. Vermont has 30% more lane miles per capita