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	Automotive News \| Columns \| Car Culture
		According to a researcher at the Culinary Institute of America, 19 percent of all meals and snacks are eaten in the car.
		Grateful He's Dead: If the car is an extension of you, maybe some Deadheads were catching on that the police could easily profile them based on wacky cars and stickers and make the assumption: possession of narcotics.
		Car and Taxes: If you purchase a new hybrid gas-electric vehicle by the end of 2005, you can take a clean-fuel vehicle-tax deduction of up to $2,000.
	www.metroactive.com /columns/rev.html (2191 words)

	RDRFBS Car culture
		While car companies are large employers in their own right, a myriad of related industries including road builders and powerful oil companies, share a vested interest in feeding and maintaining the car culture.
		Car advertising in itself is a worthy area of study and children will often be able to make the connection between the situation they find themselves in as road users and the values promoted by advertising.
		It is important that professionals seeking to challenge the car culture understand the role of the victim myth and the assumptions on which it is based.
	www.rdrf.org /membarea/rdrfbs7.htm (2235 words)

	\|\|\|[ Car Culture(1) ]\|\|\|[ Architexts ]\|\|\|[ Monocular Times ]\|\|\|
		The promotion of car culture is clearly evident in the massive subsidies bestowed upon motorists to enable them to drive almost anywhere as cheaply and efficiently as possible.
		This would not be compatible with the interests of the oil, car, road construction, or development industries, all of whom contribute heavily to politicians on the local and national levels.
		The primary cost of a car dependant transportation system is the construction and maintenance of highways, roads, and bridges, to the tune of $200 million a day.
	www.monoculartimes.co.uk /architexts/carculture_1.shtml (2703 words)

	Carfree Cities: Articles: Mark Perry: Car Dependency and Culture in Beirut
		Car dependency in Lebanon drains the national economy of wealth and natural resources, encourages the reduction of the quality and quantity of public social space in cities, creates sprawl and far-flung suburbanization, and destroys culture.
		Although car sales and usage continue to grow in many parts of the world, many cities and states, including a number in the Mediterranean region, are realizing that this cannot continue unabated and are attempting to gradually move away from the private car to mass transit systems.
		The most pressing economic, environmental and cultural consequences of mass automobile use in Beirut, where, due to war-driven centralization, land is at a premium, is the transformation of the urban and suburban landscape so as to accommodate traffic flow and parking.
	www.carfree.com /papers/perry.html (6067 words)

	Love flies out the window when cars cease to be objects of our affection - 4/27/05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		Cars are made efficiently as possible, and, for the most part, as disposable as possible.
		Cars are fairly impossible to fix without some kind of computer or fifth-level torque wrench skill.
		A first car now is usually little more than a reminder that you're not old enough to afford a good car.
	www.detnews.com /2005/autosconsumer/0504/27/G01-163182.htm (524 words)

	Leigh Witchel: Car Culture – Southern California and the desert, II
		Leigh Witchel: Car Culture – Southern California and the desert, II Leigh Witchel
		Car Culture – Southern California and the desert, III »
		Car Culture – Southern California and the desert, II The jetlag caught up with me on Saturday morning and I woke up exhausted.
	www.leighwitchel.com /blog/archives/2006/04/car_culture_sou_2.html (1824 words)

	Car Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		is caught up in a car culture that has become a major contributing cause of the death and destruction of our planet.
		They should not be giving their children toy cars to play with, but rather teach children that cars are very bad for the earth, and dangerous machines to operate.
		Cars burn carbon-based fuels that are creating greenhouse gasses that in turn are polluting the air and heating the planet.
	perdurabo10.tripod.com /vol/id41.html (406 words)

	Effects of the automobile on societies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Proponents on one end of the spectrum claim the car is a marvel of technology that has brought about unprecedented prosperity, while opponents on the other end claim it is a cancer on cities that has caused more harm than good.
		The car had a significant effect on the culture of the middle class.
		Car ownership came to be associated with independence, freedom, and increased status.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Car_culture (2279 words)

	Ways to end car culture as well as globalized trade
		The car corporations, meanwhile, have built in "planned obsolescence" -- a new car model every year, with many many models -- ever since Henry Ford cried uncle and realized that the competition against his Model A and Model T was going to finish off the Ford Motor Company.
		To assure that the car manufacturers cannot tough it out and overcome a certain level of demand-drop, an almost religious movement would be required to see through to the end the fall of the big car companies and the whole integrated pollution system.
		Also important to promote anti-car culture, modeled on anti-tobacco - it's a curse and an addiction, and we have to get rid of cars, and ultimately almost all internal combustion engines, which are much too efficient at delivering immense power, which we almost invariably abuse and misuse.
	culturechange.org /e-letter-carsolution.html (4246 words)

	Car Culture in America at DoItYourself.com
		The ability to tune and soup-up muscle cars gave average Joes the opportunity to show off their power, their speed and their style in a way that personified the car as character.
		Cars began to pervade American culture, not only on the streets and in local drive-ins, but in entertainment as well.
		Racing Champions' die-cast collectible cars from "The Fast and the Furious" collection capture every detail of the cars that appeared in the first movie as well as those that are tearing up the streets in "2 Fast 2 Furious" this summer.
	www.doityourself.com /stry/carculture (1165 words)

	Living in an Automobile Culture
		They pretend that car travel is no more expensive than the cost of filling the gasoline tank, thus ignoring the long hours they spend working to make payments on the car and its insurance.
		Even in cultures with no vehicles, it was often considered wrong for the king's sacred feet to touch the ground, and he was constantly fed, bathed, and otherwise attended to by women, so he became a fat, helpless, unhealthy, and short-lived child.
		At the same time, he was absolutely opposed to the use of streetcars, even to the point of insisting on not doing business with any company that received or shipped goods using their services (freight traffic on the streetcar lines was a good source of profit before the depression).
	www.kenkifer.com /bikepages/lifestyle/autos.htm (3383 words)

	Car Culture
		All of the cars are registered and are driven regularly by Cerf through the streets of St. Petersburg and Clearwater.
		All of the cars for sale are pristine muscle and classic cars; not a single one has four doors.
		It was the first car he owned and the one he was driving when he and my mom started dating in the early 70s.
	www.visitflorida.com /cms/index.php/id=2289 (788 words)

	NYcars.com is New York Cars - Automotive Editorials - The Culture of Car Buying (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		This is probably related to the fact that we live in a very busy culture, where keeping a job or staying on top of a career demands an inordinate amount of our time, and having leisure time is now at a premium.
		New cars are nice, but they're quite expensive, especially if you want one roomy enough to put a family in for long trips.
		Also, since the major depreciation of a car occurs in the first one or two years, tremendous savings are part of the package of a good used car.
	www.nycars.com /editorials/cultureofcarbuying (456 words)

	PRC Car Culture on carlist.com
		This year, because of a policy change in April, the thereshold for financing was raised, so the projection of Chinese able to finance their vehicle this year will be only fifteen percent.
		Interestingly, the lesser cars all have an 8 in the money figure, meaning one is seeking prosperity.
		The more expensive cars don’t have an 8 in their figure, because it is assumed that if you can afford that car, you have already reached prosperity.
	www.carlist.com /autonews/2004/autonews_28.html (1773 words)

	Car Culture Captivates China (washingtonpost.com)
		The spread of the car in the rest of the world has proven to be a revolutionary force, remaking geography and social reality.
		Cars are changing how people shop, enabling the proliferation of big-box retail stores while expanding the confines of an enduring real estate boom.
		Above all, the car is intensifying China's search for new sources of energy at a time when the needs of the world's most populous country are outstripping supply.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A38899-2004Mar7.html (826 words)

	The Black Commentator - Stalling the Dream: Racial Gaps in the Car Culture
		Those with cars largely escaped. But African-American and Latino households are much less likely than white families to own a car, leaving us with those indelible images of people of color crying out from the rooftops.
		A recent report on racial disparities in car ownership reveals that one in four Black households (24 percent) and one in six Latino households (17 percent) does not own a car. This is compared to one in fourteen white households (7 percent) who are car-less.
		A twenty-year old car used for short city trips is not a dependable vehicle for a hundred-mile journey to higher ground or a 30 minute daily commute to a job in the suburbs.
	www.blackcommentator.com /167/167_guest_lui_auto_bias.html (685 words)

	Review \| The Big Book of Car Culture
		To me, a child of the 1970s, the book was a nostalgic reminder of traveling in the back of my parents' VW minibus, stopping at all sorts of crazy roadside diners run by crazy-haired matrons, parking on the shoulder of whatever empty road we were traveling down to camp out for the night.
		To Generation Y and beyond, there'll probably be a whole lot of wondering head-scratching at the very notion of a "road trip" or even the concept that not all cars have to look exactly the same, since obviously, one bland, streamlined shape serves everyone so well.
		Overall, though, The Big Book of Car Culture is really beautiful to look at, and is a good overview of the impact automobiles have made on our everyday life and the face of America in general.
	www.januarymagazine.com /artcult/carculture.html (630 words)

	Can China avoid a car culture wreck? - Environment - MSNBC.com
		But this fast track to a car culture has had enormous costs — in terms of soaring energy use and pollution — that China is only now trying to tackle.
		Sulfur emissions from cars and coal were the chief causes.
		The small cars were once criticized for slowing traffic, but now they are touted for their higher mileage.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6290180 (1368 words)

	Meatball Wiki: CarCulture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		Car crashes are more deadly than drive-by shootings.
		I was thinking today of how to stop using my car after learning about how bad smog is this year, and the fact I've gained a few pounds, but rollerblading to work takes 50 minutes.
		A car always available near your home for a lap of time (week-end, one night).
	www.usemod.com /cgi-bin/mb.pl?CarCulture (1204 words)

	Autopia or Autogeddon? Recent Books on "Car Culture" Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies - Find Articles
		If not the essential cause of these massive changes, the automobile was most certainly their key agent, thus suggesting that a study of the motorcar might provide a unique platform from which to assess an entire century of cultural transformation.
		Autopia is further hobbled by its specific format: designed as a coffee-table compendium, with glossy pages and an impressive array of illustrations, it clearly assumes a popular audience whose level of education and attention span mitigate against specialized vocabularies and lengthy analyses.
		What is missing is a methodical examination of how the phenomenon of automobility has restructured social relationships; instead, readers must be satisfied with arresting and colorful snapshots that capture the forces of change at particular moments and in specific contexts.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa4125/is_200310/ai_n9303375 (386 words)

	Selling the Car Culture through Advertising
		monopolizing the market for ground transport, the car corporations and their business cohorts have striven to make this imposition palatable by selling the car culture through advertising.
		Car advertising in the 1920s and 1930s was geared toward expanding the mass market for the emerging technology of the private motor vehicle.
		Now the car as a device for getting from one place to another was rarely mentioned.
	www.uwsp.edu /geo/courses/geog100/CarCult-Ideol.htm (694 words)

	Custom Car Culture \| Advance Auto Parts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		Whatever production car they started out as, most of them end up as low, long, and sleek shapes with "uninterrupted" lines.
		The cars are essentially a personal artistic statement, as unique as the people who own them.
		With the venue now fixed, it quickly grew in size, so that now more than 800 cars pack the center of town, and more than 300 had to be turned away from officially registering for display.
	www.advanceautoparts.com /english/youcan/html/res/res20020801pr.html (494 words)

	Columns: Car culture runs over life
		But it doesn't take a medical study to tell you how frustrating it is to sit in a car, inching along, with nothing but miles of cars in front of you.
		America's car culture, once axiomatically associated with freedom and fulfillment, is the very thing that is leading to our national anomie.
		Where once, half a century ago, there were 59-million cars and trucks on America's roads, now they are clogged with 226-million.
	www.sptimes.com /2006/06/04/Columns/Car_culture_runs_over.shtml (773 words)

	Well, America: Is The Car Culture Working?
		Since its first appearance in the 1890s, the automobile has embodied deep-seated cultural and emotional values that have become an integral part of the American Dream.
		All of the romantic mythology associated with the frontier experience has been transferred to the car culture.
		But it was one thing to rhapsodize about the individual freedom offered by the horseless carriage when there were a few thousand of them spread across the nation; it is quite another matter when there are 200 million of them.
	www.commondreams.org /views/070900-104.htm (877 words)

	Highway 1
		Anthropologists may someday discover human beings once roamed the highways while chatting away on cellphones held to their ear, which was judged a barbaric practice and outlawed in an effort to improve public safety.
		It was May 31, 1897, and The Times carried news that would raise the city's profile and change it forever: In the dark of night, the first car drove the streets of Los Angeles.
		In 1984, the Museum of Contemporary Art opened a high-profile exhibition titled "Automobile and Culture" that chronicled the interplay between cars and art in Europe and the U.S. throughout the 20th century.
	www.latimes.com /news/printedition/highway1 (2066 words)

	Bicycle Fixation: Cars, Culture, Concrete, and Convenience
		In a radically designed city, you might not have auto traffic at all--aside from emergency and possibly delivery vehicles--in neighborhoods, though you might have car pools at the edges of car free zones, to be used when public transport, bicycles, or just plain walking were not practicable.
		That is not to say that advocating a less wasteful, more ecological culture is not a worthy activity, nor that reducing our dependence on the automobile as a means of mass transit is not something that we should work towards.
		The use of a car for the pleasures of the promenade is deeply anchored in North American popular culture (e.g., cruising down Main Street).
	living-room.org /sustain/convenience.htm (1596 words)

	features : car culture
		Ever since Henry Ford began churning out the motorized hunks of metal en masse, cars have been vehicles for dozens of things other than their intended purpose.
		The car I learned to drive on, for instance, would have been more at home on an intercoastal waterway than a Southern downtown street, and I think I learned to steer not so much left or right, but port or starboard.
		By the 1920s, the car claimed partial responsibility for the heady rebellion of an entire youthful generation and the creation of the word "teenager." After World War II, middle-class whites flocked to the suburbs in large numbers, taking their automobiles with them.
	www.walkinginfo.org /insight/features_articles/carcult/index.htm (736 words)

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