text: Right now would be a good time to start trying to make people ride bikes or walkn other than using a car because according to the artical americas love affair with its vehicals seems to be cooloing , when adjusted for population growth ,the number of miles driven in the united states peaked in 2005 and dropped stedially thereafter. Car ownership per household and per person started to come down two or three years before the downturn said Mickael Sivak ,who studies the trend and who is an reaserch professor at the university of michigan transportation reaserch instatude. And if the patterns keep going like how they are it will have benefical implications for corbon emission and the enviorment. These are all the reasons and facts why we should limit car usage and start walking or riding bikes.    The dreaded summer work, an activity each child fears as they come off a long and stressful school year. However, as children become more independent, they begin to gain the ability to choose and complete their own projects from the creativity of their own mind. The question still remains, are school projects better left for children to design and complete themselves, or should there be a specific set of instructions and guidelines a teacher sets.