I wasn't suggesting that anyone would change because they "should", just the opposite. I'm not suggesting you should change the way you get to work.
If I'd have said "Free enterprise and free markets will be what creates changes in American driving habits" it might have sounded better, would have been the same thing.
The reality is, you're driving a car which gets 25 MPH. 30 years ago, when gas was cheaper, you wouldn't have been able to buy something which would do that. No one was interested, no one made them. Then came '73.
30 years from now, if gas is 3 times the price it is now, there are high tolls on the (former) freeways, and/or the roads are gridlocked, your options might seem different. A higher mileage car, a carpooling arrangement, mass transit might have been improved and seem more attractive, and so on.
And if everything is the same as it is now, people will be driving the same way.
Arf
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In this case simplicity works.