So how easy is it for an American to move to the Netherlands? Asking for myself

100 grams of raw white rice is 365 calories, meaning that it's about 3650 calories per kg. 29k calories of rice is 8 kilograms.

Where are you buying rice that it costs $75/kg???

If you drink a whole canister of gas, that's enough to cover your nutritional needs for the rest of your life!

If you bike regularly, you actually don't spend more calories. You only see calorie burn uptick when first taking on new exercise, which falls off over time back to your usual normal calorie cost. Because of this, that calorie cost for a biker is calorie intake they'd already consume even if they didn't bike. It's essentially free, in contrast to the gas of the car which is always a cost.

Checkmate liberal. /s

Taking this further, that $4.60 of gas will power the most efficient car for about an hour.

That $12 of rice is enough energy for you to power your bike for like 50 hours.

Conclusion: Just drive your car. Do you really want to waste 49 hours on your bike? /s

One thing to account for is that humans are very inefficient at converting food into energy output. Only about 25% efficient to be precise. So you need to eat about 4 times more calories than you end up outputting into the bicycle.

The same thing applies to ICE cars, their engines are also very inefficient. EVs however reach an efficiency of 80-90%, they only end up using more energy than a bicycle because of how much faster you usually drive them. But if you drove an EV at the same speed you would ride a bicycle they would be vastly more efficient. And that's not even accounting for the amount of energy used to produce food in the first place, which is a lot higher than the energy content of said food.

The superior choice is obviously an electric bicycle though when you want to have the most sustainable transportation, you get all of the efficiency gains from a battery operated motor, whilst still having the low weight and drag of a bicycle

Gross metabolic efficiency is gonna be around ~25% so you're best off measuring kilojoules of work as an approximation of calorie burn, and then compare that to how many gallons of gas would be consumed when in a car, but you'd still probably wanna drink the gas

This is why we need good public transit on top of good biking infrastructure. The two working together let's you get anywhere a car can go while not taking a lot longer.

Get a closer job or move closer to your job if it's a good reliable job. I did and it's fucking wonderful! Riding gets easier and easier as you get stronger and better cardio too.

Took me a long time, a lot of work, and some luck but I can't recommend it enough. Most days I ride my bike or skateboard, but even walking doesn't take long. I only resort to a car if I'm too injured to ride/skate/walk far or the weather makes it too dangerous (which is rare, I've ridden through more storms than I can count lol, icy conditions suck though).

Damnit, now I want to go for a ride.

Hm... Is there any law that says I can't ride my bike in the store? 🤔

Sure would make shopping faster.

Bro pokemon WENT

You might want to check out walkscape to run even more

pics or it didn't happen

I can't bicycle anywhere. Well, at least my commute would be certain death, There is a nice bike trail a few miles away but I'd have buy a bike and a rack for my car to haul it over there. Can barely afford the car.

That's because Europeans invest in all forms of transport, so you don't get people who can't fathom the concept of taking any trip from point A to B in anything other than a car.

Edit: not sure why I'm getting downvoted. I think Europe does it way better if that wasn't obvious

It has to be said that people from one place underestimate the other...

In Europe, 100 miles is a long distance.
In America, 100 years is a long time.

It would take me 3 hours to get to work on a bike, and 3 hours home. I’d love to be able to do it, but Vancouver is expensive and I don’t want to waste my free time biking in 30° weather