To its critics, the automobile is a voracious consumer of
irreplaceable energy resources, a leading polluter of the
environment, and a destroyer of cohesive communities. The most
outspoken opponents call for greater regulations and restrictions
to ultimately replace the automobile as the country's primary means
of transportation. But their proposals all ignore one simple fact:
Americans love their cars Millions of citizens have made the
automobile the most successful method of mass transportation ever
developed, and they are not about to give up the personal mobility
it offers. This book presents the controversial view that, for the
vast majority of Americans, the automobile is not the problem, but
the solution to transportation needs. While acknowledging the
automobile's significant drawbacks, the author refutes much of the
shrill rhetoric and doomsday predictions of its opponents. He takes
a skeptical look at the major policy initiatives to tax, regulate,
and provide alternatives to the automobile, pointing out that any
policies designed to remove Americans from their cars without
offering them a superior means of mobility are "worse than useless"
and doomed to failure. The book offers suggestions and guidelines
for politically realistic initiatives that preserve the benefits of
the automobile while building public support for policies that will
reduce its negative effects on energy use and the environment.
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