Are Some Haters Of Government Sensing The Looming Regeneracy?

[Kinser79]

(03-15-2017, 04:03 PM)beechnut79 Wrote: If we become more urban, doesn't that mean that many suburban areas will have to embrace the denser housing patterns they have so far rejected in order to make public transit for feasible and reduce dependency on the private auto. On the old forum I had a thread titled "Will We Ever Reduce Auto Dependency" and got a mixture of respondents. Many seemed to think that we don't as yet have the will to do so, and I tend to agree more and more. The wild card is whether the Millennials, once they began to start families, will continue to embrace urban living or will they follow in the footsteps of previous gens and head for the car dependent suburbs.

I think what a lot of people mean by more urban is more people living in the cities themselves.  Many of the inner suburbs of major cities are dense enough that mass transit in the form of buses or street cars to  central commuter rail station is feasible.  The Xurbs though are a white elephant for sure, and many of the middle burbs will turn to shanty towns.

As for car culture...it is doomed unless you find cheap oil.  Even with an all electric car (which honestly is a pipe dream) you'd need 7 barrels of oil just to produce the tires--never mind the plastic components it will require.  Long story short, cultures based around the private auto are essentially doomed.

Down here in the South where I live I could probably manage with a moped for 12 months out of the year.  I'd just have to go to the grocery every day except every third day.  (We eat lots of produce so...)