Re:Haha (Score 1)

To put it in libertarian terms, if we ended the government subsidation of the single occupant driver (e.g. insane 6 lane highway infrastructures, the military meddling/presence necesary to maintain friendly oil import, cities in bed with corrupt developers, etc...) methinks the market would tend to find the most efficient solution and somehow I don't think a 26 mile commute is particularly efficient, if only because it's a waste of one's time.

The model of the open road as freedom is an adolescent wet dream. How many people are in irrecoverable debt because of their car? Where can large groups of protesters publicly and spontaneously redress grievences when most of our shared land is asphaulted over? Cops still pull people over based on the color of their skin. The government reserves the right to yank your driver's license (and therefore your prosperity if you can't commute) on a whim. Your freedom is an illusion. When/if we get a national ID card, you can bet it will use the infrastructure in place for driver licensing. More Americans die each year on highways than by any other cause of accidental death, or, for that matter, any modern war. Who needs RFID tags when you have a license plate?