Here’s an excellent article that ran in the Times on Sunday, July 6th about how “over the last 25 years, opportunities to head off the current crisis were ignored, missed or deliberately blocked, according to analysts, politicians and veterans of the oil and automobile industries.” We’ve hit hard times, people, and we are going to need to make monumentally life-changing decisions and soon. We need to immediately abandon our outmoded ways of planning our communties, our outmoded ways of thinking about transportation, and our outmoded celebration of car-culture.
For the rest of the country, the feeling is more like shock. As gasoline prices climb beyond $4 a gallon, Americans are rethinking what they drive and how and where they live. Entire industries are reeling — airlines and automakers most prominent among them — and gas prices have emerged as an important issue in the presidential campaign.
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