I'm 100% less likely to get stabbed by a tweaker in my car than on public transit in my city.

Trains are not flexible and safe enough.

I have been to Singapore and Tokyo (train-centric cities), but cars are, unsurprisingly, easier to use in there.

You have pregnant wife or small kids? Trains are suicide in rush hours.

I don't want to be stuck on and overpacked train or bus, dependant on train or bus schedules and like the freedom to go where I want.

Maybe cry about cruise ships and industrial shipping that spews out the equivalent of millions of cars?

The worrying thing here is the assumption that we can choose...

The world has 2 billions individual cars. Lithium extraction rate may not be sufficient to make 2 billions cars by 2030... and that's assuming we don't need lithium for computers, smartphones, but also not for batteries for the grid (because no solar cell works at night and wind farms are not on demand erther), and... not for electric trucks! Then comes the question of the other metals: copper, nickel, cobalt, ...

Trains will not work everywhere for everyone, but not deploying them now and fast will be a severe issue for North America when resources will get scarce.

We need a smart mix of trains, buses, subways, tramways, shared vehicles, bikes, everything but one individual car per person. That era will come to an end because we're closer to the bottom of our planet's natural resources stock than the beginning.

There's not even a real option of keeping gas cars a little while more, as cheap oil is also coming to an end.

The difference between accepting this and "choosing" individual cars is how ready countries will be when resources will get scarce. It may get ugly...

this is dumb on so many levels... i cant take my train to go to the supermarket

Because as the wiseman said, somebody just wants to sell more cars.

Trains are electric. They use diesel generators to power the wheels.

It's simple: people pay for cars. Companies or states pay for trains. Liberals want people to give money to companies, so cars it will be.