You would have a legitimate and practical point if we were not talking about a minority group within a minority group pushing for a solution that the rest of society doesn’t consider a problem. From the time the first Humans jumped on the back of animals like horses the ones with the horses have had an advantage over the ones without. It isn’t that we shouldn’t look at alternatives it is that the alternatives need to take into consideration our societies desire for a self propelled form of transportation.
You aren’t going to get many people out of their air conditioned car and onto a bicycle. But you could get them out of a gas powered car into a EV or some other vehicle if it gave them the range and convenience of that gas vehicle at a comparative price. Right now oil is a less expensive way to meet the needs of the very population the OP was trying to influence. Trying to make it a moral issue and expecting that to overcome the convenience and ease of use promise of gas powered vehicles is like I said before spitting in the wind. Good thought but a wasted effort.
Our country is simply too large and spread out for “most” people to replace the car for commuting with a bicycle. The ones that can do so most likely will be motivated without anyone’s prompting.
I just personally believe even dreaming of 1 or 2 percent switching to bicycles is a stretch.