> Except for building highways. Gas subsidies. Gas stockpiling for security purposes. Road Maintenance. Signage.

No need to even go that far. Just building so many roads (which are inimical to anything but cars by definition), stroads and parking space requirements: when 60% if a commercial lot has to be parking you reduce commercial density by 2/3rds, and increase the difficulty of alternate modes if transport because it becomes significantly more difficult to make rounds without a car.

And that’s if you can even reach the place to start with. The latest “not just bikes” video has a demo of a short walk through a houston suburb (where the author originally needed to go 800m to buy replacement luggage), and it’s terrifying.