On Feb 13, 8:07*am, Jym Dyer wrote:
=v= In Chicago, the biking/Critical Mass community has made
it an annual tradition to oppose the annual auto show with
something called the Auto Show Shutdown:

http://autoshowshutdown.org/

=v= Meanwhile, in San Francisco, the National Automobile
Dealers Association is featuring Jay Leno because he likes
cars so gol-durned much. *Featured topic: *how dealers
need to sell lots and lots and lots of cars in preparation
for the mind-bogglingly-high 35MPG fuel economy standard
proposed for the year 2020.
* * _Jym_

I like the cartoons about cars causing road rage and gridlock. It
seems to me that critical mass events are designed to create road rage
and gridlock.