It is high time that we all got off car welfare. They are the single most destructive thing in our cities and we need to stop seeing them as essential and start seeing them in the eay we see cigarettes...un unacceptable addiction. I realize that there are times when cars and trucks are essential but we have gone way past that and we need to change. I have not owned acar in twenty years and I get around quite well in a city that has onle adequate transit service. I wish we could all just look at wgat we mean by essential.