Cars used to run on steam, until greedy oil tycoons made a deal with Henry Ford and Louis Chevrolet to make them use gas. Or so does the legend goes.
Ever wonder why you need to drive everywhere. Because American cities are built all spread out. But why? My theory is this: Every city has a downtown/updown where all the high rises are. When did the suburbs start? American cities used to be built with buildings all crowded together, making a downtown. When industrialization came along, the oil and auto makers made a pact with the government. "Lets make houses and crap all spread out in nowhere", "why not, we have all this land". That way people will need to buy cars because they can't walk and if they own a car, they need gas. Its all a money greedy driven scheme. Thats what I think. I've been to Tokyo, Taipei, London, and Paris and those cities are so compacted that you could walk to everything, clubs, bars, shopping centers etc. That is also a reason why Americans are so fat. Because they have to drive everywhere. Who is going to walk 15 miles to the grocery store or walmart? So if you don't walk, you get fat. Yet Asians and Europeans are skinny cuz they walk everywhere.
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Besides the company pays for the fuel. LOL.
