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Leo Hickman's guide to a good life

Tuesday February 28, 2006
The Guardian

There is, of course, a succinct and direct answer to this dilemma: don't buy a car at all. But that ignores the fact that there are many people - the vast majority of the western world, no less - for whom life without a steerable composite of rubber, steel and plastic parked outside their home would simply be unthinkable."