Why Cars are bad?

When I came to know about the recent soar in interest rates, I felt good, only because the sales volumes for the cars would go down. In 2006-07 Pune alone sold a good two hundred thousand four wheelers, much more than the previous years value. The only reason, people have money to buy these monsters which does nothing but suck oil.

Going at this rate we might even surpass the The States, in cars atleast and this is a no good reason to smile about, we have TATAs going in for one lakh car(mileage claimed to be around 16-18kpl, not sure though) and we have Renault wanting to have another small car and many more. For me all these ventures cruise us towards an oil hungry destination which we can well avert by regularizing Public Transport System.

A recent survey showed that a bus that occupies twice the space that a car occupies and would carry atleast 20 times more people than 2 cars does and would consume lesser oil when compared to oil required by cars to carry the same number of people, essentially I am saying that using buses would decrease the per capita oil consumptions.

For me even auto rickshaws are a better alternative to a car, these little machines would ideally have a mileage of say 30-35 kpl which comes to 8kpl per capita mileage which in case of a car would go to as low as 2 kpl so when you are travelling in a car you are consuming 300% more oil than when you travel by auto.

I do not even want to talk about the pollution caused by the cars, but I would just like to add that diesel cars have the highest particulate emmision index of all the vehicles. So, friends, before thinking of travelling by a car think whether you really need it