@nugger @ACL9000
My big issue with the anti-car people is that they're always anti-personal mobility. They fucking love trains and bikes. They don't understand that a good car is in and of itself a powerful engine of logistics and (very important for the American, for whom citizen-soldier is a cornerstone of his ethnicity) war. No bike will ever reach anywhere near close to the power of a car in either of those fields, and a train can only take you to and from wherever there are stations, whenever the schedule allows, and as long as the train's owner permits. Trains do not provide freedom of movent. Before cars became ascendant beasts of burden (the most common beast of burden being a man) fulfilled the hauling and transpiration rolls cars now take, and until cars the horse was king. Even in WWII horses were integral to every armies logistics because cars and trucks just weren't common/advanced enough and trains have a hard cap on how flexible they are since they're tied to rails. Nothing beats a train for moving bulk over distance, and nothing beats a car for maximizing the efficiency of one man.