A result of the push for big SUVs

[hunter]

11. I bought a new car once back in the mid 'eighties when I was young and full of myself.

I'll never do that again.

Our children were born a few years later. They learned how to drive a manual transmission in that car. Later they passed that skill along to some of their friends.

I eventually gave the car away. I've got some regrets that. It would've been cool to brag about a one-owner car.

My favorite sort of car is well-used, something I can turn into a reliable vehicle myself for a few hundred dollars. The last car I bought cost less than a thousand dollars. I do most mechanical work myself.

This planet cannot support an automobile for every adult human, all eight billion of us. It doesn't really matter how those cars are powered. I do my best not to support our automobile culture in any way and resent the fact that I have to own a car to be considered a fully functional adult in this society.

In a better world we'd be rebuilding our cities, turning them into attractive affordable places where car ownership is unnecessary.

Whatever you see in the television commercials, automobiles (and cell phones...) do not make you free.