the actual cost of ownership is, of course, exceedingly high. you have to
\nbuy gas, pay bridge toll, pay insurance, waste years of your life in
\ntransit and stuck in traffic, while making your life shorter breathing the
\nextremely nasty diesel fumes which contain large amounts of particulate
\nmatter and dioxin, while your limbs fall asleep and your mind is warped by
\nclear channel radio and bill boards along the ugly and polluting freeways,
\nwhich run through poor neighborhoods, poisoning the residents and also
\npoisoning the central valley, where the smog eventually blows, causing
\nastronomically high asthma rates and causing toxic pollution to gather on
\nthe crops growing there and thus also poison our food supply, whether
\norganically grown or not. Biodiesel is a bit better, but not 100% and
\nmeanwhile your car is still using up oil, still made of plastic, still
\nkicking up tiny rubber particles from your tires, still causing gigantic
\ntire disposal problems and lots and lots of really nasty air pollution
\nfrom tire disposal sites that caught fire in CA three years ago and are
\nstill burning and it’s extremely likely that you and I both have been
\ntransported by at least a few of the tires on fire out there and all of
\nthese costs are hidden, but you pay later when your life is shortened and
\nyour quality of life is diminished and people you like get cancer and die
\nor get killed when SUVs roll over on them or are hit by pickup trucks
\nwhile crossing the street and thus they never play bass again. and when
\noutcomes of decisions are statistically predictable, it shoudl not be
\ncalled an accident when a city delays putting in a traffic light
\n(expensive and paid for by taxes not on gasoline) and then somebody gets
\nkilled crossing the street, that’s not an accident. When the auto
\nindustry knows that making cars that can comfortably sail along at 80
\nmiles and hour will lead to more speeding, more traffic fatalities, and
\nmore gas usage and polltuon, causing higher asthma rates and cancer, these
\ndeaths and illnesses are not accidents. When gigantic speeding cars
\nrequire huige amounts of fuel and we launch agressive wars in
\noil-producing countries and soldiers and civillians get killed, this is
\nnot an accident. When people see this and become angry and start placing
\nbombs around where we live and work, this is not an accident, but a direct
\nand predictable consequence of the decisions we make and our society makes
\nand part of the cost of owning a motor vehicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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