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Hybrid and electric powered cars are not really the magic bullet. Changing our attitudes is what needs to happen.
We need to take steps to rid the unnecessary bells and whistles from transportation. I'm just as bad as anyone. Tow of my three vehicles have several wasteful features.
Electrically adjustable seats
Heated seats
6 disk CD changers
Electric windows
These are just the ones off the top of my head. While I enjoy many of these things on long trips, they are useless for getting my ass back and forth to work every day. Americans buy vehicles that they want to use on the weekends and then use them as daily transportation. A big reason for this is two types of transportation means more insurance, more taxes, more upkeep, more financing, etc.
A willingness to adopt basic, point a to b transportation would help more than anything.
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