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As an example I have personal experience of, for most of the west coast of Scotland the nearest collection of large shops, banks, etc is in Inverness - which is a 2 hour drive or 24 hour walk.

Smaller towns have more need of cars than large ones, to get out of the town.

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I'd posit that we are going to have a very hard time fighting off climate change if we aren't allowed to do anything to discourage people from driving 40 minutes to a nearby town every time they want to go shopping. The transportation sector is the biggest carbon emitter, and at some point we have to come to terms with the fact that in order to reduce our carbon emissions, we are all going to have to drive a lot less.

The problem isn't just that people have to drive far to get anywhere, it's also that delivery vehicles have to drive far out of their way to deliver stuff to these places.

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