Originally Posted by Roody
For the past 150 years, humanity has bought into the myth that "science" will always find timely solutions to the problems that "science" created. I would like this to be true, but at this point it looks like the solutions to global warming and depletion of petroleum reserves will come far too late, if they ever come at all. I am very glad that I will not be alive in 50 more years!
It's not a myth, it's just people have also become mentally blind since then and don't realize they were using that answer back when they were a child.
Basically it's arrogance meets pride vs common sense. arrogance in that the car is the "adult's vehicle" or the "superior vehicle", pride in that they refuse to use a "lesser vehicle", and common sense in that "you can go get that video at blockbuster just as easily on a bike, and use less gas...as in NONE!"