You’ll rarely see me driving a car. In fact, people often ask me “why can’t you drive?”, which gets tiresome; I first drove a car when I was eight. I thought it was a pretty cool machine. It was bright yellow, and had a dash-mounted push-button transmission control. Depending on your age or knowledge of cars, you may think I’m referring to some toy car I had, but I am in fact referring to a 1964 Plymouth Valiant. My parents would let me start the cars and turn them around on winter mornings before they went to work. The first time I rolled a car, I was fourteen, and did it on purpose with a friend. It was a Hillman, for the record. By the time I was eighteen or so, I thought cars were pretty stupid, and still think so. They’re dirty, inefficient, and have far more to do with ego and prestige than moving around safely and intelligently. In spite of the fact that there are reasonable arguments that mass transit is no more efficient than cars, this position is usually heavily politicized or shortsighted, failing – either by choice or ignorance – to recognize the incredible paradigm shift that could occur if all the human and financial resources devoted to autos – manufacturing them, transporting them, advertising them, selling them via independent dealerships, building highways for them, fueling them, parking them, and later figuring out how to dispose of them and clean up the results of their runoff – were redirected to a pervasive and standardized mass transit system. Like 300 mile per hour, nearly silent trains. Apparently I’m not the only one who wants more public transportation, but what about you? If there were more and better options, would you use them? Or are you hopelessly attached to your petrol-guzzling, filth-spewing relic of the last century?

I think there’s something to be gleaned from the fact that cruise ships and SUV’s top the list:

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