The actual risks of continued reliance
on cars and oil include wars
death to oceans
and vehicle deaths
and injuries
worldwide
It is anticipated that these vehicle deaths
will be the fifth leading cause of all dying
in the year 2020 around the whole world
There will be more oil deaths than HIV/AIDS deaths
by 2020 the UN concludes
The oil and car businesses can show reductions in deaths
but these do nothing to vitiate the assumptions of the UN
The most at risk are not the most well-to-do
As knowledge of the actual risks are understood
the oil and car response will be to do anything legal or not
to maintain the precedence of oil as a fuel
and of the private car as the lead product of the auto industry
1 The world has clearly accepted oil and car
as the self evident basis of all planning.
2 The brute reality is resistance of the economy
to the pressures created by this commitment
Not only will oil eventually run out
It will become more expensive as populations mount
and competition to buy it increases
3
Market forces
may inspire investment in communities
that are post automobile
