As O’Rourke said in his new book, Driving Like Crazy:
“Pity the poor American car when Congress and the White House get through with it,” he said. “A light-weight vehicle with a small carbon footprint using alternative energy and renewable resources to operate in a sustainable way– When I was a kid, we called it a Schwinn.”
Actually, Honda’s new Segway-meets-unicycle toy vehicle is starting to make the Schwinn seem pretty cool by comparison:
Personal Transportation, 1962:
Personal Transportation, 2009:
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