Driving Forces: The Automobile, Its Enemies, and the Politics of Mobility

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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 in the long run 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 don’t seem to be about to surrender 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. Whilst acknowledging the automobile’s significant drawbacks, the creator refutes much of the shrill rhetoric and doomsday predictions of its opponents. He takes a skeptical look at the major policy initiatives to tax, control, and provide alternatives to the automobile, pointing out that any policies designed to take away 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 advantages of the automobile Whilst building public improve for policies with a view to reduce its negative effects on energy use and the environment.

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