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(another one thrown off)
Ha, wild bunch! I did mean The Wild One.
The Dark Side is worth exploring:
As to "personal freedom" let's also remember State licensing, traffic laws, blurring of causes for arrest. Riding horseback? No. A wedge in that door as "traffic law" is often no more serious a threat to others than what constirute the basis for library fines. A new thing concurrent with cars: The Bill of Rights does not apply.
Parasitic "insurance": Were insurance collected as a tax at the gas pump we could insure all drivers at a far lower societal cost. But that would cut insurance company profits (divide & conquer), plus remove another State weapon against citizens.
A little rope to roam, but not outside prescribed bounds: 1920's/'30's criminals use automobiles and automatic weapons. Both are suspect thereby. The FBI rode that one to permanent budgets: the "need" for a national police force.
Restrictions on travel, again, on the increase: airliners serviced overseas at un-secured facilities, but Americans subject to illegal searches to board same. "Air Marshalls" cut back because TSA won't pay hotel bills. Etc. Ad infinitum. In that same vein: DUI "checkpoints" and ICE stations miles inland. Not to mention the seizure of cars without due process. None of these make us more "secure" in the way more intelligent problem-solving would. The belief that Big Brother must police our internal movements (as opposed to passports and external movements) is a wedge in the door concurrent with the auto age.
Bet that "hypermiling" will be castigated -- for propagandistic purposes -- as inimical to The American Way of Life.
Ownership and use of a car makes one automatically suspect.
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