Cars, cars, cars!!

Here we have just one car lot, this one for Volkswagen, in the United States. There are an estimated 10,000 cars here but in America there are approximately 500,000,000 vehicles for 330,000,000 people. That works out to more than 1 and 1/2 vehicles for every man woman and child. Imagine a parking lot 50,000 times as big as this one.
America imports about 12,000,000 barrels of oil a DAY to keep these vehicles going. Not so long ago America was the worlds largest oil EXporter.
Ford produced a Lincoln in 1997 that got 7 miles per gallon and all the big car companies including Toyota produce cars and trucks that are much bigger than anyone needs. However building cars is not about what people need it is about what people think they want. If the worlds most credible scientists are right people are soon going to want cars that use no oil.