Do We Really Need A Motor Car ?

Where would we be without
the motor car ?
Everyone has one,
to get about
and travel
afar.
 

Before the days of the
motor car being
invented,
transport was by horse,
bicycle, 
or foot.
Slow and far from ideal,
but people had no choice,
knew no different,
until the advent,
of an automobile.
 

They were crude affairs at first,
that only the rich could afford.
They were not particularly
fast,
being uncomfortable, draughty,
cold.
Steel and iron work unforgiving,
shaking your bones,
feeling every bump
and with a firm grip taking hold.
 

Unreliable and breaking down,
overheating, misfiring,
spitting and banging.
Engines having to be started
by cranking with a handle,
that wouldn't start first time
and arms aching, 
it was tiring.
 

Of course, I refer to the first motor
cars that were made,
but then the industry,
expanded with blue prints
of models 
and plans that were patented 
and laid.
 

Now, it would appear, everyone has a
motor car or an automobile.
The modern person apparently
can't do without. 
Nonsense, to get a bus, train or tram 
or even walk.
Won't hear of it and dismisses
that type of talk.
 

There are now so many motor cars,
clogging the highways and the byeways,
Nobody is going anywhere very fast or 
at any great speed,
you may as well have walked in the first place,
got a bus or by bicycle, go.
If only a short distance,
I can't see the problem, indeed.
 

It is a fact. that we have become all
too reliant,
on our motor car,
but the powers that be, are
clamping down 
on our trip,
into town
and an expensive jaunt,
it proves to be.
They are keeping the pressure on,
to remain defiant.