Giving a hard-working Chinese immigrant a hundred reasons to not buy a car, in car-or-bust Spain, is a hilarious experience, when not hypocritical. Westerners are all over those countries with their machines and media and now it may take some generations for them to choose against it.
I guess I need to be a role model in recovery... (; Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. --Charu Saxena.
When oil is trading somewhere north of (inflation adjusted) $300/bl and price at the pump is unaffordable for most ? why have a car ? But horses and donkeys will still be here.
That is my point. Western europe and North america cannot easily survive the massive disruption to patterns of trade and food distribution in the wake of the loss of cheap transportation. But eastern europe and much of the third world haven't yet so broken the links to a less energy intense economy that they cannot revert to it at need. keep to the Fen Causeway
