B13

Ask an American man to choose between losing his comfortable house and losing his car,

COMFORT

B14

and he might easily choose to keep his car.

EASY

B15

A car, after all, gives you freedom, and this is what Americans want most of all.

FREE

B16

The car is such an important part of American life that many just can’t live without it.

LIVE

B17

A woman living in a suburb, for example, has a twenty-minute drive to take her children to school. She then turns her car around and drives for half an hour in another direction to get to her job in an office.

DIRECT

B18

To do her shopping, she has another long drive to a super-market, so she plans and buys food for two weeks in one trip.

SHOP