Time for the "automobile age" to end

Here we are approaching the end of the first decade of the 21st century, but we remain addicted to smog and greenhouse-gas spewing, fossil fuel dependent automobiles that are cluttering the landscape, assaulting our senses with relentless noise and exhaust stench with no appearent end in sight in spite of high gas prices and global oil production having reached its peak levels.

This dependence may have been more acceptable in the 20th century when there was no viable alternatives(save public transit which should have been much more widespread and highly developed and in dire need of being expanded now). The internal combustion engine was invented toward the end of the 19th century-so why do we still depend on it in the 21st?

It is time to end our addiction to the four wheeled drug and the congestion, clutter and mayhem it causes, before it ends us.