@Hex @kim_harding @johnelalamo I didn't have a chance to respond earlier, but dude...

> if car's make it past 2050, there won't be society to support them by 2100.

ok then just assume there won't be a society left because cars aren't going away

> Any society that invests in car infrastructure does so at the same expense or everything else. The US is the most fully invested, and it's going bankrupt because of it.

City and State governments can go bankrupt, but the Federal government cannot.

> there's just no way to make cars possible.

but somehow we did

> We live in a brief energy bubble that's only maintained by burning millions of years worth of hydrocarbons and exploiting most of the world. That can't, and won't, last forever.

Humanity will never use less energy. We will only use more energy.

> If we focus all of our efforts on eliminating cars wherever possible, completely getting them out of cities and suburbs, it may be possible to maintain a small number of cars for the "last mile" but even that's a dangerous proposition.

This is just delusional. Over 50% of the country lives far away from cities and we just won't have cars and roads anymore? Some alien race will come build rail to every community in America to save us?

Have you ever lived in rural America? My highschool was miles away from my home. I had to drive to school. They're not going to build light rail to every farm town in the next 75 years

Absolutely delusional thinking. I like your optimism but you are going to die very very disappointed if you think we're going to achieve that in your lifetime.