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[–]Intuit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

When someone criticizes the state, people cry out, "But who will build the roads?" Maybe we don't need so many roads. Without the state to build them, cars could not have taken off to where they are today. Maybe cities could have been organized more compactly, so there's not as much need to cars. It looks like about half the space in a city is devoted to roads and parking.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I agree with this. The US was at one point the world leader in public transit.

Oil interests bought them up, and shelved them.

These same oil interested are investing in "climate change science". The old strategy was to control oil. The new strategy is to dominate the usage of any and all energy.

Edit:. I'm an environmentalist who accepted the climate change notion for 90% of my life, so I understand how absurd this assertion may sound. :-/