too expensive people are more likely to start injecting than they are
to stop using.
What strikes me is that my friend always complains, but no matter how many times I suggest that he try public transportation, he demurs. There is a visceral need for the car. No matter how severe the bout of road rage, he keeps driving. It is like continuing to have sex with someone who gives you syphillis ever time you see them
Admittedly, he comes from the West so maybe a different kind of relationship with the automobile was formed in his youth (a driving incident is always related early in any conversation we have. I rarely tell even TJ about a subway or bus delay). But the attachment people have to their vehicles has always confounded me. Seems so much easier to rent one when you need it and otherwise be free of the burden of having one.
I think there could be dozens of attractive alternatives and people would still not give up their cars. Maybe being chauffeured around in their youth and then the passage moment of being able to drive oneself cements some sort of deep connection to the automobile that resists any rational attempts to sunder it.
Brian