[lit-ideas] Re: Car culture

  • From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 15:03:52 +0900

On 4/3/06, Eric <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> My family lived in the same small town in a
> mountainous area of PA for several generations. So
> I have my grandfather's accounts of how they
> handled the pre-car world. It wasn't too bad. In
> some ways it was more convenient.
>

It isn't alas just a question of personal convenience. Think of how
much of the U.S. economy is tied up with the auto industry and highway
construction industries and what the death of the suburbs will do to
the values of homes in which so much of Americans' personal wealth is
tied up.

John
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