Stephen Harding wrote:

That's pretty typical of American thinking. But increasingly, we're going to
find that car is making demands on us that we aren't going to like. In some
areas, that's already the case.

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You must be at a University. Faculty? Grad student? I know a Stanford physicist
you should talk to. This has been his field for the last 30 years. For
instance, he can give you The Five Reasons Commuter Lanes Don't Work and how
traffic engineers know how to fix most of the problems if the politicians would
let them. There is no looming catastrophe and we are not running out of
resources.

Here is a good question.

If you spread all the mining and digging and such from all of human history out
over the land area of the Earth, how many inches deep do you think we have gone
in the "exploitation" of resources?

-- Charlie Springer