I figured the statement "most of the country" applied to most of the country. If we mean "the most population dense parts of the country" I'd gladly concede the point.
The negative effects of vehicle size and dependence on infrastructure and society are intimately tied to where people live.
> Urban areas make up only 3 percent of the entire land area of the country but are home to more than 80 percent of the population.
https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2017/08/rural-america....