There are few icons of La Vida Americana that represent America’s free enterprise system and the freedoms it affords all of us like the automobile.<\/p>\n
And so it follows that with a growing number of liberal American apologists, there would be a growing number of “Americans” ditching their wheels.<\/p>\n
The recession and a growing awareness of the environment <\/a>are causing many people to reassess their automobile ownership. After more than a century in which an automobile represented the American dream, car enthusiasm may no longer be a part of Americans\u2019 DNA.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Leave it to The New York Times to count a marginal few as a weighty majority and mark the death of automotive enthusiasm in the name of the environment and a deep but temporary recession – then again, look at their leader – acting on the whims of an ever-more-marginal minority<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Go ahead, ditch the Prius. Better for the rest of us. More road for me; less Obama ’08 stickers to look at.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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