A Wake-Up Call from the Frontlines of Corporate Deceit
“Big Car”—the complex of automotive, oil, insurance, media, and political interests—has shaped how we live, move, and die.
“Big Car”—the complex of automotive, oil, insurance, media, and political interests—has shaped how we live, move, and die.
Available
Sep 16
It’s time to break free. Don’t just drive. Decide.
BIG CAR HAS COST US
Break Free from Car Dependence
Cities from Copenhagen to Chicago are rewriting the rules of how we move, build, and live with fewer cars, less pollution, and more connection.
Explore real-world alternatives and discover how to make the transition.
ABOUT THE BOOK
The most dangerous machine in American life isn’t a weapon. It’s your car.
Every year, 1.3 million people die in car crashes. The U.S. spends trillions to subsidize traffic, parking, pollution, all while fatalities grow, public transit withers and Big Car pockets the profits.
Big Car sold us a deadly dream. And we’re buying into it every day.
Backed by leading scientific research and peer-reviewed sources, Saving Ourselves From Big Car is a rigorously documented case against a system we’ve been told is normal.
In his sharpest, fiercest exposé yet, David Obst—Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, screenwriter, and literary agent who helped bring the Watergate scandal to print—drives head-on into the collusion behind car culture. Auto, oil, media, insurance, and politics are not just industries, but a syndicate.
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