A Social, Moral And Environmental Case For Driving More

John Tierney questions prevailing beliefs about urban sprawl, suburbs, and the automobile.

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September 27, 2004, 8:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"Americans still love their own cars, but they're sick of everyone else's. The car is blamed for everything from global warming to the war in Iraq to the transformation of America into a land of strip malls and soulless subdivisions filled with fat, lonely suburbanites...

I sympathize with the critics, because I don't like even my own car...But I no longer believe that my tastes should be public policy."

Thanks to Steve Raney

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Sunday, September 26, 2004 in The New York Times

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