The advantage of limiting car usage is that we get to save the world because less cars are used. As less the better because gas its bad for earth. 80 percent of appropriations have by law gone to highways and only 20 percent to other transport. As Mr Goldberg said "How much you drive is as important as wether you have a hybrid." In this new approach, stores are placed a walk away, on a main street, rather than in malls along some distant highway.

After days of nearrecord pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city. On Monday motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine (In the united states that is $31). The same would apply to odd-numbered plates the following day. Almost 4,000 drivers were fined. 27 people got their veichles impounded because of the reason they reacted to the fine.

In Bogota, Colombia millions of Colombians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work during a car-free day. Leaving the streets of this capital city mistirious devoid of traffic jams. That was the three years in a row that cars have been banned with only buses and taxis permitted for the day without cars in this capital city of 7 million. The goal was to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog. The people that ignored that faced a $25 fine.

President Obama's ambitious goals to crub the United States' greenhouse gas emissions, unveiled. A fortuitous assist from an incipient shift in American behavior, recent studies suggest that Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by. Researchers are wondering if people have been peak driving. Rates of car ownership per household and per person started to come down  two to three years before the downturn. A lot of sociologists believe that the percent of cars owned per personper household will go down.