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.

Saving Ourselves from Big Car

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Sep 16

It’s time to break free. Don’t just drive. Decide.

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Big Car: National Dream to National Nightmare

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    ABOUT THE BOOK

    Saving Ourselves from Big Car

    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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    Tom Radulovich

    Tom Radulovich

    former director, San Francisco’s Bay Area Rapid Transit

    “David Obst reveals how Big Car captured economies, governments, and even our imaginations to reshape how we get around, the places we live, and our social and civic lives―and the often dire consequences for our health, our safety, our relationships, and our living planet. Obst illuminates the great sweep of this century-long story, and brings it to vivid life by introducing us to some of the characters who devised our current predicament and to the people crafting humane alternatives to Big Car.”

    Sampo Hietanen

    Sampo Hietanen

    founder, MaaS Global

    “David Obst’s book reveals a hard truth: the dream of car ownership has blinded us to better options―options we’ve been systematically denied.”

    Carol Schweiger

    Carol Schweiger

    president, Schweiger Consulting

    “Obst’s book describes one of the most significant causes of human illness and death while being touted as the best solution for living freely. His book has set fire to a fuse that should ignite readers’ feelings of pure dread and fury about what ‘Big Car’ has done to us. The demise of our species may be hiding in plain sight.”

    ABOUT DAVID OBST

    A lifelong iconoclast with a sharp eye for power and the stories we’re sold, David Obst has spent his career working across journalism, publishing, and Hollywood. In Saving Ourselves from Big Car, he turns that lens on America’s most normalized system of control: the car.

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