text: Studies have shown that Americans are buying and recieving less cars and liscense each year. With unemployment at a high rate and many families still in and recovering from poverty, it's too much money and stress for a lot of people. From source four, "If the pattter persists-and many sociologists believe it will-it will have beneficial implications for carbon emissions and the environment, since transportation is the second larget source of America's emissions, just behing power plants." Something as simple as limiting our time spent in our cars could benefit the world so greatly, especially with global warming taking a toll quicker.