Car is absolutely part of the problem. Its they sell Americans on oil. There's been multiple attempts at electric cars in the past that could have completely supplanted oil cars, but they killed them in favor of selling more oil.

I mean, yes, if we care strictly about oil that might be true.... The energy source for the batteries on the electric car is an important consideration though.

There's an argument to be made that car dependence supports a kind of "mid-density" suburbia, that is both energy-inefficient and fiscally unsustainable.

https://cayimby.org/map/why-evs-alone-wont-fix-climate-change/

It's the car.

Before all our own train lines were shut down to force us to buy cars here life was better.

Before all the dense walkable neighbourhoods got bulldozed to make highways.

Urban planning designed for cars replaced urban planning designed for people

Yeah I want to differentiate living in an actually rural setting and being somewhat or completely independent in an "off-grid" sense, from The Suburbs.

Suburbs don't work without massive subsidies for infrastructure, and regulations to allow for car accessibility of services.

I think the future for most of humanity is dense urban environments, which are more sustainable than the suburbs because it's more efficient to provide infrastructure and transportation.

Totally respect people who go this route, but it's simply not feasible for 8 billion people to have their own plot of land and be off-grid independent.