Originally Posted by
bikemig
I'd love to see the US raise gas prices and do something about our car use. Unfortunately the politics of that is hard if not impossible. The politics of this are somewhat different in developing countries. Fewer people would be as negatively impacted and so there might be a slight chance that a country like Bangladesh could so something sensible about transportation. The politics that might make this possible are different if there was sufficient social pressure for change.
Each country must do what it can, or we are all toast. There is a lot of political/social advocacy in America: pro-transit, pro-bike, Complete Streets, anti-pollution and so forth. Change doesn't happen unless people work for it.
also doesn't it seem hypocritical (at best) to expect the people who already have the least to make additional sacrifices, while we continue an extravagant and destructive overuse of private cars?