As others have pointed out, the US is much less dense than the Netherlands and also the bulk of our development happened in a post-car context--the US literally

As others have pointed out, the US is much less dense than the Netherlands and also the bulk of our development happened in a post-car context--the US literally evolved around the car, and consequently doing away with cars is a much less realistic proposition for the US than it is for the Netherlands. To that point, most of our streets, roads, and parking spaces are much wider than yours, and can accommodate larger vehicles. As others have noted, we have more people in remote areas, and while Netherlands is obviously an agricultural superpower, your farms are smaller than ours (larger farms require larger equipment).