I am so tired of people being made fun of for choosing to ride their bicycles to work or to walk instead of driving a car.
It all started maybe two months ago upon seeing an insurance commercial where a man was riding his bike to work because he could not affor his insurance. Then a woman comes down the stairs and makes fun of his outfit. While his reasons may not have been about the environment, the commercial still shined a very negative light on bike riding.
Ok, so they are an insurance company and they want money but that was just wrong. People like the man in the commercial should be applauded and rewarded. Having less cars on the road reduces the gas needed and used and all of those nasty emissions. Plus it is quite a nice workout (which is something Americans seem to be lacking nowadays).
There is a teacher at my school who I have seen riding her bike to and from work everyday that the weather is nice. A few days ago some kids who were walking home laughed at her as they saw her riding in the street, using proper arm turning signals and everything. I was outraged and I really felt like shouting at them to shut up and telling the teacher that I thought she was doing a really cool thing.
Now being only 18 there really isn't anything I can do to get more people to do things such as this. I believe if a person lives within a certain radius of their destination they should always look for an alternate means of transportation instead of a car. If everybody did their part and for once decided to leave the keys on the counter and just walk or ride a bike then we could greatly reduce many of the things wrong today.
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