Now, if we just stop pumping oil out of the US fields, and burn up all the Mideast and Far East oil...

Oil is far too valuable as a raw material to use it as fuel. Our children will curse us, when they have to systhesize hydrocarbons for chemical processes, when we could have been using nuclear power and fuel cells...

I live about 40 miles from my work. There are NO trains or buses that would get me there, even if my hours would allow it. Having just spent 25 months unemployed, I don't think I had much choice about taking what I could get, or any choice about being able to move. The society in the US is based on individual transportation rather than public.
Of course, if we go back to company owned towns...