Originally Posted by tandempower

You're shifting the issue away from the fact that automakers have always just produced cars and sold them into local markets. It was always up to local people and governments to deal with the influx, manage the infrastructure, etc. The governmental costs of providing infrastructure for driving are enormous and it's gotten to a point where various contractors make it into an industry to draw public infrastructure funding for the sake of their own financial gain. In reality, it is tax payers and the environment shouldering the burden of all the cars and trucks dumped onto roads.