We have no bus service at all in our village. I'm too old to cycle, and my husband needs his car to get to work. We could I suppose buy all our food online, but then a vehicle would have to deliver it.
I'm afraid we both need our cars. Believe me, if there were an alternative we'd grab it with both hands, as running two cars is horrendously expensive and troublesome.
We have actually considered moving into the city, but houses there are much more expensive and we couldn't afford to buy one. That's why we opted for our little village.
Not every car owner is a monster bent only on polluting the planet.