Originally Posted by
wphamilton
It is a lot of money leaving the local economy due to car ownership expenses.
We've been discussing this very topic for a long time. If you buy a book on Amazon vs your local bookshop. If you get Salmon flown in from Chile vs your local trout stream. If you look at the roughly $6k annual car cost vs what that money could provide the local economy.
Anything that can be sourced out of your own community is going to benefit your community rather than Roody's backyard.
That's why we look at the local bike co-op as a great community effort. The bikes are already in the community. Mostly sitting in basements. Rather than give Walmart and China the revenue, we provide a couple of extra jobs, get basements cleared out, keep landfills free of bikes... it all adds up.