09-28-2019, 10:16 PM
(09-28-2019, 02:44 PM)beechnut79 Wrote: It has now been closed to half a century since auto dependency was first called into question when we had that big gasoline shortage where many waited in long lines just to get gas. There are a lot more cars on the road now then there were then. In 1997 author Jane Holtz Kay wrote a book title "Asphalt Nation" which took a closer look at our over reliance on the automobile. I communicated with her for a time, and she emailed me having to confess that not much had changed in the now two decades plus since the book was written.
Cars are around twice as fuel efficient as they were during the oil shocks, so we can have twice as many without consuming any more gasoline. If you're concerned about fossil fuels and global warming, you should be pushing more fuel efficient cars, rather than opposing cars entirely.