Reply #56: You're right--the most important issue is not with the car buyer [View All]

[Jed Dilligan]

or even the car maker; it's our pattern of development. We will not fix our problem until we pull back from the 'burbs and learn to live with a little density again, move production closer to population centers, have wildland fingers cutting up cities to provide wildlife corridors as well as local outdoor recreation, narrow the streets, make them bike-able, expand bus line coverage, build high-speed interurban rail, etc., etc. It's easy to attack one symptom of where we went wrong, hard to redesign the whole country that made these vehicles a necessary evil for so many folks.