Our agenda is to transfer resources. Very soon we came to realize that we were not suited to work with the other organization, so we went off on our own, and we became Pedals for Progress. They do not exist. In reality, no industrial society has ever gone into modern transportation, such as cars and trains, without first going through a bicycle culture. It's an evolution.
Bicycles directly spur economic activity.
When you increase the ease of the movement of goods and services, it has a very direct effect on the economy. Well, with a bicycle, they can roll there in half an hour each way, and they get five extra hours of work each day. They need to make money, and the easiest thing to tax is imports. Because the import taxes in some of these countries are so high on specific items, the rich who control these countries have selectively picked items they thought they could put a whopping tax on. These people drive Audis and Mercedes, and they always viewed bicycles as recreational vehicles.