As one who formerly lived in an area overcome by "sprawl", I think the author is correct when he identifies it as a great problem for America.
We need to preserve the remaining farmland and forests or we will eventually be in the same position with their products that we are now in with imported oil.
This is yet another invented "crisis".
All you have to know is who and what is behind it.
The US Census Bureau classifies less than 4% of the land in America as "urban."
There is no "sprawl." The only sprawl that exists is that vast expanse of space between the two ears of the smarxist growth purveyors.
And if you want to preserve farmland or forest, buy it.
"We need to preserve the remaining farmland and forests or we will eventually be in the same position with their products that we are now in with imported oil."
One man's sprawl is another man's opportunity. Man, you've been drinking the Kool Aid! Cut back, LOL!
I live in Dane County, Wisconsin. The liberals here are constantly telling us that our county is over-developed. In the entire COUNTY, only FOUR percent of it is considered "developed." And Dane County is the MOST populated (outside of Milwaukee County), as it holds our State Capitol, all the Hippies and the University of Wisconsin!
http://www.co.dane.wi.us/aboutdc/dcmap.htm