Originally Posted by I-Like-To-Bike

The laughable article doesn't contain enough intelligent thought to piss me off, it is nothing but a political rant based on an over-the-top "imaginative and novel" methodology to arrive at the conclusion that the average speed of a car to be 3.7 miles per hour:

"Illich arrived at this shocking number by dividing the average annual miles per car driven in the US in 1974, approximately 6000 miles, by 1600 hours, which represents the total of time required to make the car go that far. Those hours include the actual time spent actually driving it, the time spent pumping the oil and refining it into gasoline, the time spent by health care professionals on the consequences of traffic accidents, and so on."

Maybe B. Carfree or his source used similar "and so on" stats to arrive at his calculations for automotive and bicycling average speeds.