Hopeless Wish

Through out this book, I found myself getting angry and frustrated with humans. It made me so upset to know that, when cars first came out, researchers and scientist new that gasoline wasn't sustainable and were looking for another way to run cars. They also were concerned with the pollution that cars created which got worse when they added lead to gasoline. Nobody wanted to here these concerns because they were so caught up in the idea of automobiles and of course the amounts of money that could be made of these products. I read most of this book with a feeling of shame for the human society and was wishing that cars were never invented. I kept thinking what that would be like. Would it even haven been possible for cars to never have been created. I feel like one way or another humans would have sought for new technology and the urge to make everything more convenient. 

It was very interesting to see the timeline of cars because I've only been an eyewitness for a few decades to the actual subject. I never knew that people had looked into the possibility of running cars off alcohol. I wonder if that is still an option and if so why hasn't been in the running for the search of alternative fuel? It was great to hear about Henry Ford and his goals on trying to recycle as much as he could even when it wasn't profitable, that's what we need today. I wish more car companies now had similar moral like him. I loved that he wanted to make his cars last as long as they could and when they did break make the part easy to repair. Car companies today make it so difficult to get parts for cars and let alone fix them. My uncle got a Prius last year or so and one of the bulbs for the headlights broke. I guess the bulb was some sort of special bulb so to replace it would be hundreds of dollars. I was astonished that people pay so much or a new Prius and they can't even make the bulb to replace it more accessible.

I know everybody feels the " need" for their car, I don't even own a car and I still feel that need. I also feel guilty when fact about cars are right in my face. which they were while reading this book. It seems today, the only way to function is with a car. I know I wouldn't be able to get to work or to this seminar class with out one.