Government social program for low income families regarding automobiles

[Cory]

Free? No. Some kind of means-tested subsidy for insurance and paying for a used car? Yes.

[Cory]

What about people who live in rural areas?

[Cory]

Rural people need trucks. Trucks are not cars. They do work only individual vehicles can do.

Urban cars are a luxury. Even in the rare case you need one, it's easy and economical to use a rental or taxi for the task.

I was also talking about people who live in small towns. Also, no everyone in rural areas "need trucks".

[Cory]

Obviously transportation policy needs to take into account the needs of people who live in sparsely-populated or far-flung areas, and obviously most of those people need and will continue to need individual vehicles. To pretend that this somehow means that people who do live in densely-populated areas shouldn't be enabled and encouraged to rely primarily on mass transportation is chimerical.

That wasn't what I was saying, for the record. I just thought that the idea that public transportation alone isn't the solution to the this issue which seemed implied by previous posts. It's part of the solution but there are vast swaths of lower-income Americans who will not be helped by it and their needs should also be taken into consideration when dealing with transportation-enabling policy.