School buses are a fine invention. They not only ensure that kids get home from school safely (important since there are no pavements to walk home along - see Priorities). They also leave gainfully employed parents more time for work, and non-working parents more time for essential cosmetic maintenance. And - by way of an environmental consequence - school buses cut down on school runs and therefore fuel consumption.
So who are the gas-guzzlers: Europeans, who take their children to and from school in 4x4s, clogging up the roads in the process and leaving their oversized engines running while they wait for their darlings to emerge, or Americans, whose children are transported collectively and therefore cost-effectively?
In many ways, school buses are a lot like another great British invention that has been consigned to the dustbin of history and the memories of old fogies like myself: milkmen.
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