I talked to an eighteen YO neighbor a few years ago (not sure what she’s doing now) who didn’t have a driver’s license, and had no plans to get one. Her parents chauffeured her everywhere, and she was happy with that.
This is economic insanity. There is no amount of money that Americans can spend that will have any effect on the climate in any predictable way, because China and India are going to continue to use fossil fuels, and the Third World is going to industrialize.