Before the invention of cars, outdoor cats had no place to sit.
Before the invention of cars, cinder blocks had limited usage.
Before the invention of cars, teenage wooers had to resort to barns.
Before the invention of cars, deer stared at the moon.
Before the invention of cars, there were people accidents.
Before the invention of cars, folks slept in homes and inns.
Before the invention of cars, sides of barns stood naked; devoid of hubcaps.
Before the invention of cars, there were no parking lots; only hitching posts.
Before the invention of cars, bugs committed to death by flying straight at frogs.
Before the invention of cars, dogs had to run downhill fast to get a blast of air in their faces.
Before the invention of cars, parking meters were alien invaders and successfully defeated twice.
Before the invention of cars, only geese honked.
Before the invention of cars, yard sales were a real estate transaction.
Before the invention of cars, dogs chased horses.
Before the invention of cars, hucksters were snake oil salesmen.
Before the invention of cars, people ate meals in homes and parks.
Before the invention of cars, most people knew how to curry a horse.
Before the invention of cars, the phrase, “Are we there, yet?” was unknown.
Before the invention of cars, hemp was the most versatile and useful plant on the planet.
Before the invention of cars, nobody did a pirouette with a horse or dog team.
Before the invention of cars, public music occurred only at bandstands.
Before the invention of cars, parties happened in the homes of the upper crust.
Before the invention of cars, Pasuckuakohowog made soccer moms look like pikers.
This blog post was motivated by a blog post by @rebeccaryan
After the death of cars, where will outdoor cats sit?
After the death of cars, what will we use cinder blocks for... why were they even invented?
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The hemp quip was not meant to be funny. I do not smoke or eat pot, but the feral gumit has no right to tell folks that they can't. Ford made his vehicles from Hemp fiber. Both he and Diesel ran their vehicles on biofuel made from Hemp. Their car engines were not designed for gasoline.
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Gasoline is an interesting substance. It is the waste product after you extract all the important parts of oil. So, it was cheap, especially here in The US where it was refined.
It also has a limited shelf life. Which made it an absolutely great way of controlling people. And Standard Oil made sure they were in control. Bribing car manufacturers; getting fuel supply hoses and gaskets made of certain materials that would dissolve in alcohol, etc.
This is going to take a lot of undoing to undo.
However, the car of the future is more likely to not exist.
An electric bicycle is worlds more efficient than any other transport.
But, what if there were four people in the car? Four electric bicycles are still worlds more efficient.
Also, the great urban blight is going away. The thing that was only enabled by the motor vehicle, is now a desolate and soul draining wasted expanse of asphalt. And they will be replaced by more compact, more walking friendly, more visually friendly cities.
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JohnnRockefeller used his money made from selling whiskey to the "Union" army to buy up oil and create the trust monopoly centered around Standard Oil. He went forward because he envisioned how to make money off of distillery waste, as kerosene was the product.
Rockefeller developed Vasolene and then the entire Pharmaceutical Industry to be run on petroleum distillates, BEFORE the gasoline monopoly.
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Before the invention of cars people used their legs for walking, not just pressing down pedals.
And before the invention of cars the earth could breathe more deeply...
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See above comment; early cars did not pollute.
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lol funny. People accidents. Life sure would be a lot simpler is we went back to horse and carriage. I think the Amish have it right.
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As far as the Amish utilizing horses; yes. For the large Amish farms gravitating toward GMOs; no.
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Before the invention of cars, it took longer to go far.
I guess cars made thing easier ...
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lots of good laughs in this one, but im unfamiliar with the last line
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The indigenous peoples of North America played a brutal foot ball game, Pasuckuakohowog
https://footballnetwork.org/history-of-football/earlierhistory_1/
With the advent of the modern motor vehicles in the U.S., a phenomenon of a sub-species arose: The Soccer Mom.
Which one was deadlier; I'll leave that for the reader to decide?
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It is interesting to think about the ways that automobiles have impacted our society, considering a world with cars is all most of us have ever known. Thanks for sharing.
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