"War Against the Automobile" ! Give me a break, CD_Editor. This article is what I call "beer hall culture".
First, the government you decry IS the people. It is not, as business and the media have conditioned you to think, a "big brother" orgainzation separate from and beating on the citizens.
Second, out of mind and sight, vast subsidies have been paid to support automobile use. For instance, every gas pump lists the taxes, but doesn't even mention, let alone list, the subsidies. Just because it appears there may be a small reduction in the net subsidies doesn't mean there is a war on automobiles.
Third, in earlier days, those who popularized personal transportation using private cars could not have foreseen the problems of pollution, crowding and use of fuel that eventually and unavoidably have resulted from relatively unconstrained dependence on private car use.
Just as we moved from seeing nothing wrong from dumping our "night soils" in the street, and unhindered smoking, we are beginning to wake up to the fact that there have to be limits on use of cars.
And the reason for that is that getting from point A to point B using private automobiles is an extremely inefficient and therefoer wasteful way of getting around. Overdependence on bloated "cars" is draining our wealth, making our cities into frantic noisy smelly messes, and poisoning our (only) planet.
Constraining use of cars is a sign of a maturing society, not proof that the sky is falling
