Sadly it’s all been so politicized in my country. To a non-American it will sound crazy that to say you care about these things in many minds means you also are a member of a given political party and so also believe a whole host of other things you may not. You don’t get to talk about these topics as a member of one party here, or you’re effectively cast out. Yet only two parties have a chance of shaping the laws determining how the nation as a whole acts on these ideas. So you have it that even though the average American would choose to take transportation that also allows their grandkids a chance to breathe clean air, you have billions of dollars in subsidies going to oil, coal and gas companies and emissions laws for cars being rolled back and public transit sabotaged. All sorts of absurdities like this prevail in a divided land.