AS USUAL, I’M SURFING THE WAVE OF A TREND: Ralph Kinney Bennett notes that there are now more cars than drivers in America. That includes me: the InstaPundit household has three cars and two drivers.

Some people probably think that’s terrible. I think it’s great! I might not collect original-bodystyle Mercury Cougars by the scores like Keith Laumer (I think he had over 50, all from the 1967-68 model year) but I like cars, and I think that it’s a good thing that people can afford more of them. As Bennett says:

Americans, more than perhaps any other nation, have been free to fully embrace the use of a device unparalleled as an articulate, efficient, safe, comfortable, versatile mode of travel — the automobile.

“Light rail,” or whatever the latest public transit nostrum, doesn’t get you to the parking lot of that interesting restaurant you’ve heard about in some little town. Nor does it get you back home. Nothing else gets you door to door like a car.

You have to wonder why some people have such a visceral hatred of them. Of course, what I really want is a jetpack. And one of those Jetsons-style flying cars would be nice.