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To: SJackson

You know what is funny?

About 50 years ago the big three auto makers conspired to destroy the Street Car and electric bus companies and were socked by congress with a couple of thousand dollars in fines.

Now with the federal government hot to destroy the automobile in America, the DOT which has build this vast network of superhighways wants to remove Americans from their cars and put them into the very things the Automobile industry destroyed 50 years ago and got a slap on the wrist for.

Personally I think our government is filled with the dumbest idiots on the face of this planet right now.

They are literally tripping over their own stupidity.


58 posted on 05/26/2009 6:23:27 AM PDT by usmcobra (Your chances of dying in bed are reduced by getting out of it, but most people still die in bed)
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To: usmcobra

And those streetcar companies (notably the Pacific Electric Railway) were private enterprises


75 posted on 05/26/2009 6:46:22 AM PDT by Fred Hayek (Minnesota - You all can go to hell. I'm going to Texas.)
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To: usmcobra
About 50 years ago the big three auto makers conspired to destroy the Street Car and electric bus companies and were socked by congress with a couple of thousand dollars in fines.

That myth has made the rounds of various left-wing sites for years, and even became a subplot for a movie of a few years back. Wikipedia devotes some space to it, if that means anything.

Please take a couple of minutes and read this article and note the references at the end if you want more truth rather than liberal conspiracy fiction.

Yes, streetcars were popular when the alternative was walking or hiring a horse and buggy. After the automobile got going in the early part of the 20th Century and mass-production made it affordable to the average working man (blame H. Ford), streetcars were considered not just slow transportation but a nuisance. Cities actively tried to get rid of them as bad for business.

143 posted on 05/26/2009 8:58:36 AM PDT by logician2u
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