Let’s expand this further. Think about how much driving is commuting to work or running errands like groceries. Think about how many of those could be easily removed with better public transit and walkable cities/neighborhoods. Think about how many fewer ambulances we’d need without over 40 thousand people dying from cars every year in the United States and over 2.8 million injured from cars every year.
These are not “accidents,” it’s structural violence churning our blood into profit for car and oil companies. This isn’t even touching on the other harm to our health from smog, rubber particulates in the air, other forms of pollution, the acceleration of climate apocalypse, the time and space wasted because of cars every day, everything spread apart and atomized because of how much surface area is dedicated to parking and stroads. Literally illegal to re-build the good cities bulldozed for cars because of single-use zoning laws.
We could all live near the damn jimmy johns and walk there or get it delivered by bike!! A better world is possible!! Drag the suburbanites from their beds kicking and screaming!!