Transport now biggest co2 emitter in US

deathbycar California aspires to obtain all its electricity from renewable sources, 27 years hence. The great fly in the ointment? As always, corporate capitalism’s lifeblood commodity, the private automobile.

US chose cars, now it cannot afford them #autosprawl #meltdown

mercurynews.com Earlier this summer, a section of roadway on Interstate 5 near downtown Sacramento crumbled away, causing multiple collisions, vehicle damage and flat tires, closing the highway and snarling the morning commute.

Cars will choke Silicon Valley

Opinion: Forget cars, even self-driving; mass transit needed: "Yet we have virtually no more dirt to pave at key choke points to handle the gridlock challenges on the core freeways and feeders."

Wildfire Season Is Scorching the West

Climate Central: "The West is ablaze as the summer wildfire season has gotten off to an intense start. More than 37,000 fires have burned more than 5.2 million acres nationally since the beginning of the year, with 47 large fires burning across nine states as of Friday."

Thousands of cows die in California heat wave

LA Times : "“Cow mortality, that happens every day,” Tom Tucker, the county assistant agricultural commissioner, told the newspaper. “It’s the heat that has made it worse. It hasn’t stopped. We are losing our cows, and it is at an extreme.”"

Modesto Students Can Now Ride Transit for Free

Streetsblog California: "Modesto Junior College (MJC) is joining a growing list of institutions that are partnering with transit to ease the financial burden of getting an education. As of July 1, all MJC students can ride city and county transit systems for free."

California throws good money after bad spending more on cars

Jefferson Public Radio: ""Tonight, we did something to fix the roads of California," Brown said as he and triumphant lawmakers stepped outside the governor's office to speak with reporters. "This helps people, because their cars aren't going to get as broken as they are under our bad roads, a lot of them are going to get jobs, and it's part of the prosperity of California.""'

Both US political parties support spending more on autos and sprawl. The only difference is on how to pay for it. The US has led the world on sprawl, starting with the deliberate destruction of streetcars.

There is a lot of hand wringing on climate, but this commitment will be a giant step in the wrong direction.