We could all say the same thing as nuster... and the problem is, we all DO. Few people want to use public transport, as it's generally inconvenient, but we complain that we have to pay for the freedom a car provides. I used PT for a good few years, and before that I cycled a lot, but now I wouldn't get rid of my car unless the situation were dire. We have an infrastructure that was never designed for the volumes of traffic we see today, and the money has to come from somewhere to pay for everything. Until car manufacturers pull their fingers out and decide to give us affordable electric cars and the government gets us green energy to charge them... we're stuffed.
I suspect that the biggest obstacles to our dependence on petrol are the car companies. It is not in their interest to kill off the internal combustion engine over a short period. It will take a decade or three before they change, simply because of the costs involved
At the moment, I take the view that the benefits far outweigh the costs of driving my car, so I don't complain. Much