While I’m
bragging up American ingenuity and inventions that make me proud to be an
American I can’t forget the automobile, that most expensive of things that I
haven’t figured out how to live without. I love my cars. Here in Idaho it would
be very difficult to live without one. I couldn’t live as far from work as I
do, nor could I do a zillion things that I do to live because there is
absolutely no public transportation where I live. Second only to the train is
the automobile for opening up the American continent to the countries that are
now here. Luckily we still have plenty of places where cars can’t go, but even exploring
those places would require a great deal of perseverance if you couldn’t get
nearer them by car.
I will
say this. I am looking forward to the day that cars no longer leave such a huge
carbon footprint and I’m quite glad that electric cars are becoming a viable
option. But I still love cars because they get us around. I don’t think you’ll
find a country in the world that doesn’t now use automobiles to get from place
to place. And, of course, this clever invention all came from an American named
Henry Ford.
You
know, I’m so thankful for my car that I think I’m going to take a drive today
to see some of those trees that I was writing about in some of my previous
entries. The automobile is just one more thing that reminds me of the many good
things there are about this country of ours.
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