There's certainly a quality to it that has lent itself to the suburbanization of the USA. In the absence of viable electric battery technology, the suburbanizat

There's certainly a quality to it that has lent itself to the suburbanization of the USA. In the absence of viable electric battery technology, the suburbanization would have relied on street cars and pedestrians. Which existed. And were ripped up around the time the automobile took over; which has all sorts of theories around it as to why... I think without oil we'd have higher density cities, better public transit, and healthier populations.