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You need a car to get to work. How are you supposed to not buy oil? The point is the fossil fuel industry gave us no real alternative, you don't have to eat at a restaurant to survive but you need a job to.
No I don't. I don't even have a driving license.
It's also not just about cars. Oil is in other products people can try to avoid. Everyone can do something. Everything between voting for the right direction to changing your whole life around it. It doesn't matter where, as an individual, you can exist on that spectrum. As long as people don't just throw their hands to the air and deny all responsibility.
Yea, bc you're German. Americans aren't so lucky, and nothing constructive comes from acting like that makes you superior to Americans, who for the most part are literally forced to drive places