Republican Opinion of Bicycles & Bicyclists by McHenry - FIXED AUDIO

Rep. McHenry uses sarcasm to condemn bicycling as an alternative to driving as "naive" and "ridiculous" He goes on to mock a bill that would allot $1M/year to promoting bicycling nationwide. He states that bicycles can not help with the "fuel crisis at the pump" but claims that clean coal and new nuclear power will. It remains unclear which coal and/or nuclear powered automobiles he thinks will accomplish this task.

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[ArranoGris]

Hey, genius. I don't think anyone is advocating people fucking commuting on interstates on bikes. And no one is suggesting that decrepit 63 year old men like you be forced to ride a bike to work. Jesus chill out....

[totoroben]

Umm pnematic tires are a bicycle innovation and the League of American Wheelman lobbied strongly to have paved roads. It would be hard to drive without those two things. And when your brakes go bad on your car you have to take it into a shop for a $300 brake job. New brake pads for a bicycle: $15. Bicycles dont change much because they work well enough already. As for the Internal Combustion Engine, well its complicated.

[kjlkjl]

it has worked in europe, you ignorant dope

[doggonedave]

Fuel efficiency?? My bicycle gets 250 miles to a banana.

[matthew2000tx]

most trips in America via car are less than 2 miles....so ride a bike...

[cuauhtemoc14]

What an IDIOT!! Stupid Republican...

[Innocuoustroll]

Urrrrm go to ANY major city on earth and its swarming with Bikes. They re MUCH quicker around cities than cars, as well as providing all the obvious benefits to everyone and the individual. But do republicans see that, noooooo because that involves logic and reasoning.

[KrunchyJD]

You Americans sound like Rednecks if you ellect idiots like this guy talking. Bicycles are efficient, and many of you fat Americans could do with the exercise. Bicycles are part of the solution, particularly if you start building cities on a people scale. Bicycles are more efficient then cars in terms of energy being converted to moving a person forward. I know of 2 80+ year olds and they can hardley walk and they still ride around on bikes.

[Scarlettexashes]

On, clean coal? Great! Now lets see the Righties cough up money towards alternative resources exploration instead of bulking up our nuke collection.

[cash442]

theyre republicans, all they say is NO.. assholes

[mad27]

Bicycles or obviously limited in range, but they are, along with public transportation, a feasible solution for those living in urban areas.

But yeah, hybrids would be a great solution.

[Eegrek]

Perhaps we need to rethink where we live in relation to where we work. The best cities are those that have made it easy to live downtown and stop expanding into the suburbs. By living close to where you work bicycling would be an option. So would walking. We as a society need to get out of this suburb/freeway mania.