
We’ve all heard of peak oil, which the gallant knight Sir Fracking has slain for the time being. But in the United States, perhaps for all the rich world, we may have already passed into a related period of transition, peak cars. Globally, of course, that’s bosh. India and China and other newly embiggened economies with growing middle classes will continue to sate that class’ taste for personal vehicles for decades to come. As the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace wrote last year: Even if the rate of growth of passenger cars in circulation in China and India remains very ... Read More










