We live in our cars. We blast music and listen to books and the news. We try to learn languages. We eat and drink. We check our e-mail.
Some people spend more time in their vehicles than they do with their families.
Every second we drive 60,000 miles, use 3,000 gallons of petroleum products and dump 60,000 pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. And the amount of energy used and waste procuced to manufacture 15 million vehicles a year is not well documented. We give over half our cities to roads and parking lots. Only every so often do we stop and consider the impact that car culture has on our planet. Environmental awareness really took hold in the 1970s when cars formed huge centipede-like lines at the gas pumps during that decade's fuel crisis.