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Driving Our Cars: A Blend of the Mundane and the Magnificent

Driving Our Cars: A Blend of the Mundane and the Magnificent
Cars line up on Pine Plaza Drive for gas at the Costco in Apex, N.C., on May 12, 2021. Ethan Hyman/The News & Observer via AP
Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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It’s easy to forget how relatively recent the widespread use of automobiles is. The aunt and uncle who raised me were born when there were fewer than 200 miles of paved roads in the entire country. They lived through the revolutionary transformation that the automobile wrought, ushering in a new era of mobility and independence. Today, we Americans take driving our cars for granted.

Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Mark Hendrickson is an economist who retired from the faculty of Grove City College in Pennsylvania, where he remains fellow for economic and social policy at the Institute for Faith and Freedom. He is the author of several books on topics as varied as American economic history, anonymous characters in the Bible, the wealth inequality issue, and climate change, among others.
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