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Originally Posted by Xist
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If you need more reasons to own a car than a quick look into Hell that's the picture at the head of that article...
1) You don't get into better shape, because you have no way of getting to interesting places to hike, bike, cross-country ski, &c, and so you turn into a homebody couch potato. (OK, unless you happen to live in e.g. Switzerland...)
2) Cars don't have to cost a fortune, unless you insist on buying expensive (and gas-guzzling) new ones on credit, so that you have to make payments, carry C&C insurance, &c.
3) Not really. If you're stuck in a city, it's all too easy to forget that there's a real world out there, and that you depend on it.
4) Nope, unless you're idea of "community" is the very insular "things within walking/public transit distance".
5) Again, not necessarily. Car lets you go other places, where you can see more than your own insular bit of city.
6) Very much not so. Driving a car is not all that stressful, especially compared to say biking on city streets or narrow-shouldered roads.
7) No.
8) Very much not so. Unless you're into paying big bucks for exotic car rentals (or perhaps in Europe), what you can rent will likely be a low-end newish car with automatic transmission, stuffed with "infotainment" crap.
9) Well, some of us choose to be conscious, regardless of whether we own a car or not. If you don't, that's a personal problem :-)
10) Better example for the future is to drive low/zero GHG cars, rather than becoming one of the urban horde, for whom the environmental costs of their lifestyle is "out of sight, out of mind".