The electric fed Bus High Speed Rapid Transit

It uses overhead wires on the 'trackway' but is rubber wheeled and runs on battery to make the off track loops.  On the raceway, computer guidance has the BRT running as fast as any passenger train. Off raceway, it is a double, or triple rubber wheeled bus making the local street loop. Nary a sound, quiet, comfortable high backed seats.  Three block walk to and from, but take a bike if need be, or grab a Uber at the endpoints.

More efficient than the next most efficient, the two door sedan. You can prove that your commuting costs, in units of energy, and damn close to unmeasurable in an industrial world, if you ride this and walk the three blocks.  

This is especially true if you commute on sunny days in Calizuela. Your current energy consumption is in wire losses and the cost of a few hundred pound of lithium, divided over a million passenger/year.

Here is how it works

Take out your telephone or other personal web device and go to Lifestyles of Holocene Man.  Using your personal cash card, click on the LA Bus Tramway riders association.  Give it a good thumb print.  Done. 

As long as the county of LA builds the proper transit, and you use it, according to contract on sunny Calizuela days, then you can prove your consumption is current pre-industrial, in a court of law. Notice I am not including life cycle costs here, we all still pay the energy cost of bus and raceway construction.

Do this.  Paint your roof lillywhite, keep your  energy costs way down, and go to court.  You are provable ice age man, and you sent the energy straight back out.

Camptowners in white tents

OK, they have a bunch of five and en watt bulbs over the place.  They run sewage and water pumps.   But it is a controlled environment.  Divide the culture into daylight activities, electricity from the desert. Trade that against a thousand pound pile of lithium.  Let the sewage tank fill until daylight. Camptowners would be pre-industrial.  Life cycle costs of tents much lower than house.  Greater density, works fine,  the Electric High Speed Rubber bus drops by for workers.