Originally Posted by
Elkhound
This is a big problem I see a lot with people trying to promote cycling.
They tend to use big, nebulous justifications for it--like, "you're not causing foreign wars for oil" and "you're saving the environment". What if you told someone this, and then they asked you to point to the part of the environment that you had saved? You can't do it. In theory it's true, but in practical terms it's really rather meaningless.
I'd suspect that non-riding people would be more swayed by concrete, material reasons that pertain directly to advantages it offers for them: it's healthy, gas is getting more expensive, and (in applicable areas) you may be able to beat gridlocked traffic, and you don't have car-parking problems or costs.
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