You aren’t unique in this. Everyone does things beyond grocery shopping. I don’t see suggestions that you should take to the dentist, the hardware store, the cinema all on a bike. It’s all been about something we all do: groceries. If you took the bike to pick up the milk, your car doesn’t get sold out from under you while you’re away. If you like pens and use a pencil to sketch something, it doesn’t mean you can never use pens again.

Going on about all the other things a car benefits you for is irrelevant when the conversation being had was about one specific circumstance. Now I’m not sure what to think about your statement on going for groceries two or three times a week would cost you an extra hour. If you live so close to the shop, that surely wouldn’t be the case. Maybe ten or fifteen minutes I’d figure, unless you’re spending quite some time in the store? I’m in and out in ten minutes going a couple times a week because I’m not filling the pantry in one go.

At multiple points in this thread, suggestions have been flatly rejected for reasons of false ‘impossibility’ and other responsibilities procluding car alternatives. None of what’s been suggested has been meant to have you sell your car and solely go with a bike. Replacing one or two trips a week on a bike is fine and reasonable, and very possible for anyone living within a short distance of something as common as a grocery store.

Now I will take a note from mavvik@lemmy.ca and bid you adieu. But if nothing else, consider you may be best served in hiring a delivery service in lieu of shopping yourself. Or perhaps toss the car in the river and get a real grocery-getter.

i go every where on a kick scooter now (electric)… I’m now looking into an electric bike as I had assumed they did not work well in winter

When Ford invoked “constitutional crisis” notwithstanding clause for cancelling comppleted wind projects, we knew the interests buttering his buns. Truedau was not particularly firm against disinformation on carbon tax or climate sustainability.

Certainly, Trump is most to blame for scaring away investment committment follow through, but Ford is bribed to sabotage any future Canadian participation in global progress.

A strategy to invest in any interesting Canadian University patentable ideas has always been an exclusive offer to US oligarchy who is already dependent on fossil fuel protectionism. The exclusivity of potential slave masters also means terrible investment terms if the slaver accepts your begging for submission.

Every Canadian has a phone that records everything they do and reports it back to Google, Apple, and Amazon. No one cares that they are being spied on as long as they get their infinite scroll and self-driving car.