Cars are very expensive, not because of the car in themselves, but the infrastructure and land use policies required to make them convenient. Think of parking l

Cars are very expensive, not because of the car in themselves, but the infrastructure and land use policies required to make them convenient. Think of parking lots and roads. A more compact society would simply be less costly to maintain, and you can use public transit to scale transportation. Housing is only very expensive because of land use policies and we don't build enough of them. Once we have a more liberal land use policies, then maybe labor costs will start to matter.