"People now realize that prices may come back down, but they're not going down to where they were" - the mantra of the article and all of us. The CAR era as we know it is gone for good even if we will see more hybrids and the millage increased by the government or not. Ethanol is not a solution either to maintain the flow of the cars on the highway. A massive conceptual and inherited social habits change is needed. Mass transit/public transportation is something to be consider LOCALLY, state by state county by county. This will not be easy to implement due to people reluctance to it and population dispersion in USA but nevertheless should be consider. Maybe a combination of hybrid buses and trains that will avoid driving to the point of access. But this is not only about the American love affair with cars. It is about electricity and heat use in our homes and work places. Is about not ordering on the Internet and having ship it to your door. Is about reducing the truck transportation over 100 miles at least at half. Is about "life style" and the illusory idea that being in control means a button that we push with no effort. It really means not as much to become green but become conscientious of our own power to change things that we took for granted until now as part of the American dream - consume with no limits is one of them.