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I live in rural Iowa, the closest grocery store is 15 miles away. I have, in fact, ridden by ebike to do that a few times. We also actually have a rural bus service out here for the county, so it's not like it's an impossible idea for every rural county to have the same thing.
But ultimately, little podunk towns don't really need to exist and should mostly be resettled into the cities anyway. It's just inertia that keeps them alive. Only rural farm, forestry, mining, fishing, and rural recreation workers really need to live out here and really only for a portion of the year. I certainly don't need to live in the middle of fucking nowhere and I hate it.
You might hate it, but a lot of people strongly prefer that sort of lifestyle and would hate living in a city. Are you proposing we force everyone to conform to your preferences?
I agree that the current reliance on private vehicles is unsustainable, but rather than just abolishing private vehicle ownership, why not put resources into developing and promoting smaller, more reasonable personal transportation? e-bikes are neat and all but let's see you pitch them to people living in northern Canada and see how long it takes them to laugh you out of the room.
I'm proposing we force everyone to live efficiently so climate change doesn't kill billions of people and we don't waste trillions of dollars on redundant infrastructure. There so much fucking waste involved in keeping these little towns alive. If they don't like it, they can also become one of the essential rural workers that can continue to live out here.
Private vehicle ownership needs to be abolished because it creates a ridiculous excess of redundant machines and infrastructure for no reason. Always needing wider roads, more road maintenance, more gas stations, more cars and trucks, more power lines, more suburbs, more and more and more extra waste that makes life worse overall for the rest of humanity.