[AGL] just when the car was perfected

[Michael Eisenstadt]

it was only in the middle late nineties that the 
automobile was perfected: no repairs for 
the first 100,000 miles, quiet, air-conditioned.

computer controlled ignition made tuneups
a thing of the past and quality control at the
factory in the building of it was perfected.

so under the influence of cosmic indifference
and the law of unintended consequences and
the entrance of China and India into the concert
of advanced nations, the gasoline powered car
in the US will have to be replaced by . . . 

not mass transit because the suburbs where 
the majority of Americans live have spread
over the landscape and the linear transportation
of mass transit cannot serve it. only private
transportation will permit life to go on. 

i can imagine hybrid and fully electric cars 
replacing gas cars and having the option of
recharging the battery from our universal
electric grid. and to generate the electricity,
nuclear generation like they do in France
which gets over 70% of its electricity
from nuclear generation.

i am not forgetting that battery fed electric 
cars are not as naturally efficient as gasoline
and that batteries are expensive.