“…• The dominant culture that sustains major discourses of what constitutes the good life, what is necessary for an appropriate citizenship of mobility, and which provides potent literary and artistic images and symbols -such as E.M. Forster's (1931: 191) evocation in Howard's End of how cars generate a 'sense of flux', and J.G. Ballard's (1973) Crash, which describes the erotics of 'crash culture' (and see Bachmair, 1991;Eyerman and Löfgren, 1995;Graves-Brown, 1997;Creed, 1998). • The single most important cause of environmental resource-use resulting from the exceptional range and scale of material, space and power used in the manufacture of cars, roads and car-only environments, and in coping with the material, air quality, medical, social, ozone, visual, noise and other consequences of pretty well global automobility (see SceneSusTech, 1998).…”