Europe's leaders instructed their finance ministers to draw up plans for coordinated economic and job-creation policies for their next summit in Vienna in December. This would have been impossible even a month ago, before the German elections removed the orthodox hands of Helmut Kohl and his finance minister, Theo Waigel. Our unemployment in Europe is a catastrophe and a scandal. The excuse is no longer valid that things are foundering on some conservative bloc or other. This plan does not only provide a financial infrastructure, the completed project opens up whole new arenas for employment.
People can live in the suburbs of London and work in downtown Paris.
They could commute entirely by rail. This is an easy question to answer. The reason, quite simply, is Americans love their cars. The automobile gives its driver a sense of freedom and independence. In America, we take that freedom for granted at the cost of our environment.