Death by Car

rom Mike Flugennock, an apt image of the wages of Obamania: spill cartoon “We still need more oil, we still need more gas.” -Barack Obama, speaking on Earth Day

One logical effect of the corporate capitalists’ century-long cars-first transportation dictatorship in America has been the thorough intimidation of even its most ardent critics. With that in mind, see if you can guess what the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition agrees to call the reality depicted in this photograph: To quote the SFBC: According to a … Read more

Car marketers (a.k.a. corporate capitalists) peddle their monumentally wasteful and dangerous products as indispensable bundles of joy and comfort. Curious then, how the three happiest countries in the world rank in the motor vehicles per capita department: Denmark: #1 in happiness, #28 in automobiles per person Switzerland: #2 in happiness, #15 in automobiles per person … Read more

The Buffalo-Bill-in-a-K-Mart-suit at left is the eminent Randal O’Toole, a “senior policy scholar” specializing in transportation issues at the unintentionally hilarious Cato Institute. Cato, you might know, is the “think tank” and lobbying group that says its mission “is to increase the understanding of public policies based on the principles of limited government, free markets, … Read more

Mainstream environmentalism is very often as bad as the disease it thinks it’s busy curing. Unwilling to risk their funding by attacking capitalism, the big green groups ignore as many hard facts and propose as many impossible solutions as worshipers of “markets” and technology. Take the case of Opportunity Cost of the Tar Sands, the … Read more