ghostdog

The Detroit motor companies decades ago supported the destruction of urban rail lines in the USA. Most cities complied. The electric mass transportation systems were ripped out and petrol-powered buses bought from Detroit to take their place. Time to rebuild the rail lines?

 

 

 

Neighborhood groups and businesses that it would run near or through would fight it tooth and nail. NIMBY would make it nigh on impossible.

Plus in the USA, railroads are too gay.

For the crude oil imported to the US, Canada is the country with the most, followed by Mexico, and then Saudi Arabia. Hugo Chavez is #5.

as the 19th century marches on...