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What to Do When You Can’t Move About Without the Internal Combustion Engine


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Photo via Flickr I’m in Jakarta, Indonesia, for two weeks. It’s 95 degrees everyday here, and the metro area is a concrete jungle of 23 million fed by street vendors, choked by traffic, and populated by what must be the nicest collection of people on the planet. Scooters fill the narrow streets like swarms of bees, weaving in and out of traffic with reckless abandon. There are no sidewalks or much public transit to speak of, and even i