[boris]

The answer is nuclear power. With sufficient cheap energy, any amount of synfuels can be manufactured. A second answer is methane clathrates (look on google).

Mass transit, huh? Substitute "collective" for "mass" and you've got it. Mass transit is for sheep and cattle. With mass transit you leave from a point of the government's choosing, at a time of the government's choosing, to a destination of its choosing. With the private car you leave from a point of your choosing, to a destination of your choosing, at a time of your choosing. No wonder the collectivists hate the private car so much and fawn over boondoggles like the "big dig" in Boston.

--Boris

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

No wonder the collectivists hate the private car so much and fawn over boondoggles like the "big dig" in Boston.

The Big Pig (yes, that's a deliberate slur) is a highway tunnel project. It has nothing (as far as I know) to do with mass transit.

[mvpel]

The answer is nuclear power. With sufficient cheap energy, any amount of synfuels can be manufactured.

You could have a nuclear-powered locomotive, too, with a closed-cycle gas-turbine engine.