I remember learning in the late 80s that it was the rubber companies who made car tires that lobbied successfully to get policies that separated peoples' living and working places. Money in politics.
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Oh don't worry, the same goes for Europe!
However, that doesn't mean we just write off the option for anyone else.
A lot of students and elderly go by train, and a lot of business commutes by train as well. It's just a more relaxing mode of travel.
Realizing this and my inability to drive due to disability kinda brought a dilema on me.
On one hand, I'd love the idea of saving up to live in Germany to benefit from the EU's investment in railways. On the other, I'd like to help the US get on their level.
A few years ago, a person I worked with at the University of Cincinnati who was a Republican took a vacation to Europe and came back and told our entire 40-or-so-person team how impressed he was with the trains here in Europe. He said, 'America bet on the car and lost.' I'll never forget that.
It’s really more accurate to say that America was defrauded by the auto and oil industries to build in a rent seeking industry into our every day lives.
America never voted for this, we had a bunch of oil barons that stole our future.
No, his family was pretty entrenched in Republican politics in Cincinnati, but the trip to Europe definitely opened his eyes and you could have a reasonable political discussion with him
Now the plan is to overcharge EV owners by like 2-3x to bail out the Highway Trust Fund. This is the most backwater country and I call it the first undeveloping country outside of a war, it's all self-inflicted.
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Ya. I was frustrated when I posted it.
https://bsky.app/profile/sundazed.bsky.social/post/3loutccrx5s2s
"Europe built trains and highways. America built highways and regret"
However, that doesn't mean we just write off the option for anyone else.
A lot of students and elderly go by train, and a lot of business commutes by train as well. It's just a more relaxing mode of travel.
On one hand, I'd love the idea of saving up to live in Germany to benefit from the EU's investment in railways. On the other, I'd like to help the US get on their level.
America never voted for this, we had a bunch of oil barons that stole our future.