Too Many Cars
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I've been on freeways (expressways, motorways, autoways, autobahns, etc.) in virtual gridlock all over the world. London, Madrid, Paris, Rome, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Berlin, Houston, Los Angeles, and New York. It is so easy at those times to get angry at the 
politicians who are spending the money foolishly on anything other than roads.
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I lived in Frankfurt, Germany for a couple of years in the early 70's. Nice city. The financial center of Germany. The annual car show is going on there right now. I went to it last year. It is really amazing. Clearly one of the world's biggest.
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Der Speigel in Germany just published a nice article about how car makers are finally beginning to realize that carbon dioxide and global warming is real. And that if they have a green image it will help their sales efforts. In the article they had this amazing graph.
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No wonder the roads are totally clogged up everywhere. In 1960 there were 122 million cars worldwide. In 2006 there were 925 million cars! Good grief. The problem is not too few roads, rather the problem is too many cars.
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