Car-baiting, eh Jim? Sure, I drive every day to work. I drive a pickup truck, too. The ten-plus mile ride on a bicycle through the hills of Austin in the heat is not terribly easy, nor is picking up your 11-month old child, nor running a variety of errands for extended family, nor a dozen other things.
This is not about personal habits, but the choices available, as Doug points out. Automobiles are individualized commodities which segregate people from others and waste immense amounts of energy in doing so.
When I lived in the Boston area, I had the choice of driving about 1/2 the way into Boston downtown and taking the metro from there. Vastly better, in my opinion. I was able to read War and Peace, and Boswell's history of same-sex marriages, among other things, on the daily ride to and from downtown.
Bill