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Originally Posted by spence
If I wanted America to fail I'd let corporations set their own rules to produce more profitable but less efficient cars and trucks. I'd use the US Military to artificially keep gas prices low so consumers would feel it was their birth right to drive 7,000 pound SUV's to the store for milk.
Or bread...
If I wanted America to fail I'd oppose investment in mass transportation to ensure millions of cars sat idling in the gridlock of city traffic wasting away the same natural resources that power our factories and heat our homes.
Hey, this is pretty fun 
-spence |
"If I wanted America to fail I'd oppose investment in mass transportation to ensure millions of cars sat idling in the gridlock of city traffic wasting away the same natural resources that power our factories and heat our homes."
If I wanted America to fail, I'd continue to spend zillions of dollars which we do not have, on mass transportation systems which almost no one wants.
Spence, once again, your ideology is blinding you from the reality. Those people in their cars LIKE being in their cars. They're not rejecting mass transportation because it's not modern enough. They're rejecting mass transportation because 99% of working Americans prefer the comfort and convenience of driving their own cars. You're not going to make more people choose mass transportation by making trains and buses more efficient or slick-looking. Sorry to interrupt yet another ideologically-fueled rant, with facts.
The personal automobile is one of history's great providers of freedom. Thanks to the auto, most of us chose to move away from the cities, and out into the suburbs.