Have you ever wonder if you car was safe? What if you were causing enviornmental damage? Would you chnage then?

In VAUBAN, Germany residents of this upscale community are suburbam pioneers, going where few soccer moms or comuting executiver have nere thought about going before. They have given up there cars. In this experimental new district they are generally forbidden to have street parking, driveways, and home garages. As a result to this , 70 percent of Vaun=ban's Families do not own cars, and 57 precent Sold thir cars to move there. Automobiles are the linchpin of suburbs, where middle-class families from Chicago to Shanghai tebd to make their homes. And that,experts say, is a hge impediment to current efforts to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from tailpipes. . . . passrngers cars are responsible for 12 precent of greenhouse gas emissions in europe . . . and up to 50 percent in some car0intensive areas in the United states.(Elisabeth Rosenthal)

However, in Paris after days of near-recored pollution they enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city. Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of france , after just five-days of intensifying smog. They all Blamed Diesel fuel, since france has a tax policy that favors diesel over gasoline. Diesels make up 67 precent of vehicles in france, compared to 53.3 precent average of diesel engines in the rest of Western Europe, According to Reuters.(Robert Duffer)

In BOGOTA, Colombia a program that's ste to spread to other countries, millions of Colombians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work during a car-free day. Leaving the streets of the capital city eerily devoid of traffic jams. Municipal Authorities from other countries came to Bogota to see the event and were enthusiastis."These people re generating a revolutionary change, and this is crossing border," said Enrique Riera, the mayor of Asuncion, Paraguay.(Andre Selsky)

Atlast, in the United States, President Obama's ambitious goals to curb the United States'greenhouse gas emissions, unveiled last week. Fortuitious ssist from an incipien shift in Americans are buying fewer cars , drivingless and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by. The United staes , with its broad expansas and suburban ideals, had long been one of the world prime car cultures. its is the birthplace of Model T; the hopme of Detroit; the place where wilson pickett immortalized "Mustange Sally". . . But Americas love affair with vehicles are cooling.

So as you drive you high byrd cars down the highway, stop and think what your doing to the air and evironment around you.