And I thought Americans were carbrained, holy shit.
(To be fair, he’s not wrong in that this is intended to keep the auto companies and the government nice and fat – but the obvious response to this is to agitate for better public transit, not railing against an environmentally sound policy.)
Human exercise produces so little electricity that it would probably be a net negative to produce everything required for this gimmick.
You need an exercise bike to produce something like a few hundred watts at most, if you can keep up an intense session. Continous stable power generation will be lower.
And everything which isn’t a bike will have much lower peak power generation capacity, and will be less efficient too