automobiles and freedom

dodge challenger ad

"Two things America got right: cars and freedom."

First responses: 

1. We have long associated the first with the second.  
2. Having a car is a symbol of and a tool for freedom that far exceeds mere transportation or mobility.  
3. The Eisenhower interstate highway system was built to insure national security, but ends up being used for cars that allow us to go on vacation and to have houses a long way from our employment.  
4. But, that also limits the time we spend at home and forces us to spend time in traffic, if we have cars and jobs and houses in the suburbs.  
5. Not to mention our "enslavement" to those who have the oil needed to fuel the cars.

p.s. thanks to Evan who posted this.