(a) most people in the USA live in a region without adequate mass transit and thus needs cars to do useful things like keeping a job or shopping at the grocery

(a) most people in the USA live in a region without adequate mass transit and thus needs cars to do useful things like keeping a job or shopping at the grocery store. (B) did the Wall Street journal article also talk about the effects of the chip shortage and the subsequent new car shortage that hit last summer? If not, it is willfully misleading. (C) another hint on where all that money went is the increase in fuel costs, rent costs, and food costs. The increased demand is exacerbated by the supply chain troubles including the decrease in US oil wells provoked by Biden's war on American-sourced fossil fuels.