China will need to have the same level of skills in strategies and vision regarding marketing within the automobile industry, as has been the case in manufacturing.

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Los Angeles as a long-term case study in one of the few cities principally developed after the invention of the automobile reveals an even more depressing underside to the data.

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Then of course, the automobile appeared on the scene, and the use case around gasoline displaced that around the heavier fraction (kerosene) in importance.

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The automobile is an onerous, expensive obligation and necessity, and in the case of the working poor a brutal tax.

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