This is patently absurd. A more gross generalization could hardly be made.
And the average between this and reality is worse than the status quo, so when politicians compromise, we get worse off overall.
Irrational people...
I bike two miles to work, I work, I bike home. I walk or bike to a grocery store, and carry my goods back. I walk or bike to bars, and come back.
If a car is absolutely essential for getting into work, either you or your company is doing it wrong.
EDIT: Ah yes, and this is in probably one of the sprawliest, least bike-friendly cities in the US.
A friend of mine was killed riding her bike when a cop ran into her. I live in a relatively small city, and traffic was not busy at the time.
It's a simple fact that cycling with automobile traffic is far more dangerous than driving. Take that risk if you want to; it's your life (though if you're killed by a car, it could be your fault, and it could ruin the driver's life too). It's not wrong to refuse to take that extra, unnecessary risk!
If you think that everyone should do what you do or else they're "doing it wrong", you are thinking wrongly.
Indeed, if biking is so dangerous, I propose that there is something wrong with the traffic rules--there's a great writeup about how streets were (at the beginning of the 20th century) almost completely mixed-mode transportation and that car companies pushed for redefining norms to plant the idea that they were only for cars.
You've been brainwashed.