You missed my tongue in cheek implication. Everything you answered 'Yes' to will be compounded by a wider artery.

'Why one or the other?'

Because the windening funding sucks the county transportation resources dry.

Keeping Americans in their cars brings to mind cannibalism.
Someone suffers for us to have oil, be it Iraqis, Venezuelans, Nigerians, etc.

This entire society has been built around the consumption of oil. Why keep feeding the beast.