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	Name:	Talullahhound -
	Subject:	Glimmer of Hope for Autos
	Date:	2/17/2009 8:40:08 AM

Having come from Washington, I'm used to the big push about using mass transit. I'm sure you must hear the same in Atlanta whose traffic I think rivals Washington. It's an "easier" solution than trying to build new road that are already overcrowded by the time they are built. The "green" people love it, and it wouldn't surprise me to find out that that the person you heard talking was one of the twenty-somethings that think mass transit is the answer.

I have a kind of odd theory about the US car companies. They need to start building cars that look like something other than the Japanese. They won't compete with the Japanese for the good gas mileage beige boxes. So they need to make American cars look distinctive. They need to build some excitement about American cars. And keep the price competitive and the gas mileage realistic.

I don't think you have to worry about people in this country going back to one car. It won't work. Even though DH and I could likely go down to one car at this point in our life, there is no way that is going to happen.