[cafard]

Cars are often still used as a method of transportation, especially among people whose life or work happens to fall outside a few dozen cities with dense population and work and stores one can walk to. That guy living in Leader Heights, Pennsylvania, isn't driving from sheer cussedness, he's driving because work is in York, or maybe Shrewsbury or Baltimore, and because the supermarket is five miles away.

If he were richer and more influential, he wouldn't be in Leader Heights, he'd be in Baltimore or Philadelphia.