American people know about the harms they endure from driving cars, but they're not going to change a thing!

@Roadsterrider Italian people are just as rotten. So you win! Perfect excuse to do nothing. Roadkill does as roadkill is. Nothing.

@Roundandroundwego I am afraid there is no winner for this argument. In the US the battle to fight pollution from cars started in the late 60s/early 70s. Lead removed from gasoline, emissions requirements, CAFE standards requiring better mileage and emissions on a progressive basis. Unfortunately, there isn't a suitable replacement for the combustion engine that is readily available and financially available for most of the country, let alone the rest of the world. Maybe when technology and manufacturing processes improve, it will be better, but I am not holding my breath. Then there is the problem of how electricity is generated, about 70% of power in the US is coal or natural gas. Until sustainable energy is generating our power, buying an electric vehicle is just trading gasoline for coal and CNG.

@Roadsterrider public transportation with zero emissions is doable in every way but ideologically in the evil empire.

@Roundandroundwego I don't know where you live but here in the US, public transportation wouldn't work very well, commuting distances are too great, things are too spread out. Not sure whether you think the US is the evil empire or where you live is the evil empire.

@Roadsterrider pure lies. But you don't need the truth to keep driving and wrecking!
You can't plan anything that's not spread out for the cars. Okay. Whatever!

@Roundandroundwego What is a lie there? Are you always rude and insulting to people you don't know? Please oh wise one, tell how the US should institute mass transit. Where are you from and what type of mass transit do you have?

@Roadsterrider you're repeating that lie that the USA can't plan a transit system or even its own cities to reduce driving because you have a unique physical geometry,! All coutries build transportation - you aren't a victim of nature.

@Roundandroundwego I would say that it isn't economically feasible in the US. The burden of cost could not be supported. There are busses, subways or trains in major metro areas. I never said the US was a victim of anything, just that it wouldn't work here as it does in other places.

@Roadsterrider Over 80% of the U.S. population lives in cities, where public transit is much more practical than private cars for the majority of transit needs.

@badminton isn't like the USA can't plan to build for less driving.
It's a fact that Murkans won't plan anything for the US public good, because that's communist.

@badminton NYC is 35 miles wide, I know people who work in the city that commute 60-70 miles daily. There is plenty of transit in NYC, subways, buses, if it was such a better idea to use mass transit, why do New Yorkers still buy cars?

@Roundandroundwego You really have no idea what level of freedom the average American would have to give up to stop using an automobile. The freedom to run to the market for a forgotten ingredient for a recipe, to just go to the beach or a park on Saturday morning, to adjust a work schedule to accommodate returning home from school. The ability to drive up to the door and unload groceries instead of having to carry everything a half mile from the bus stop of train station. What of those with poor health or a handicap that prevents them from walking to a mass transit pickup point?

@Roadsterrider One problem is grocery stores are too far from residential areas, especially in suburbs. This is due to single-use zoning laws, which make car use practically mandatory. If we had mixed-use zoning laws residential and commercial-retail businesses could be right next to each other. Then people could walk or bicycle to stores just a block or two away. Another plus is that walking and cycling would greatly improve people's health, instead of driving a car everywhere.

Cars are not free; You have to pay 5 figures to buy the car, pay for gas, insurance, registration, maintenance, repairs, car accidents. Freedom is having the choice of public or private transit.

@badminton I never said cars were free, only that I can operate my car as long as I want to and way cheaper than I can purchase a new EV, and currently replacing the entire drivetrain of my vehicles would be a cost savings over replacing just the batteries on an EV.

Your idea that 95% of the country if not of the population should change their lifestyle to accommodate mass transit, yes people may be healthier if they exercise of bike, but mass transit is available in every major city in the country, but people still buy cars. Forcing them to pay for mass transit that they don't want to use is not freedom of choice. It is screwing over people who work for their money to pay for things they don't use and don't want for a political agenda.