Absolutely correct.
There are ways to get around not only inexpensively but in a manner which leaves one with more free time to do with what they want.
We all live in relatively confined areas, UNLESS one has chosen to work a long ways away from where they live. Then it's their fault, no sympathy from me.
What people want is for their way to work. They want to sit on their collective butts and are unwilling to meet society even part of the way. Witness the neocons who regard having to use high-efficiency light bulbs as governmental coercion of the worst sort.
Arf