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Driving cars keeps people consuming and spending money on insurance, repairs, registration, gas, and financing. Car ownership supports suburban home development, pavement contractors, insurance companies, gas stations, repair shops, financiers, and giant manufacturers. Comparatively speaking bicyclists are frugal and don't spend much money, and bus and train riders benefit from public spending on mass transit and don't support businesses directly to pay for their transportation. If your goal is to support policies that favor economic activity and don't care about disadvantaging poor people, then you'd be foolish not to promote automobiles at the expensive other modes.
