Read the following sentences: “Houston, for example, has 30 parking spaces for every resident. That’s 64.8 million parking spaces in only one city. Golden points out that having so many parking spaces is inefficient. Much of the time the parking spaces sit empty. At high-use times—for example, Saturday afternoon when everyone is running errands—every parking space at a shopping center is full. But at 3 a. m. on a Monday, no one is at the shopping center.” As used in this sentence, what does the word “inefficient” most nearly mean?