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People like "cheap and easy". Even though the automobile is 15% of the problem, 20% I believe if you count commercial transportation of moving cigarettes to 7/11s, it is easy to pass laws and throw blame at the bad old evil companies. That way we (the people) aren't accountable.
You very rarely, if ever, hear anyone talking about how much energy your house uses and how much "stuff" goes out the chimney of a coal fired power plant.
The automobile is one of the biggest scapegoats. You'd think the were autonomous robotic organisms from another planet sent here to kill us in car crashes and polute our environment and leave piles of old tires laying around.
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"Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure." - Aldous Huxley
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