I am sure what you mean by they left the train alone. The government is heavily involved with trains. Amtrak, for all intents, is government-run.
You can’t force people to use electric cars when they can’t afford them and there is limited benefit to most people. It is doubtful that it will ever do anything to assist the climate. There is zero evidence that electric cars are the answer.
I fully support electric cars but let the market figure it out.
Anyways my whole point was, the government hardly ever “lets the market decide”. It always exerts pressure on the economy whether directly or indirectly. And it is nothing new.
You are aware that General Motors gobbled up a lot of the public transportation railway systems in the USA and scrapped them in favour of the fancy new accessible automobiles, yes? This took place between 1920 and 1950. THEN the government installed the interstate superhighway systems. More for the automobile.
I have said nothing for or against electric vehicles in my comment above, please don’t derail the conversation.
Nothing prevented other people from creating new rail systems. I wasn’t aware Gm bought rail systems. I thought they bought trollies and light rail systems.
Trollies and light rail systems are public transportation railways. The governments (state or otherwise) prevented other people from creating new rail systems. You can’t just decide to build a train system without approvals.
I am sure what you mean by they left the train alone. The government is heavily involved with trains. Amtrak, for all intents, is government-run.
You can’t force people to use electric cars when they can’t afford them and there is limited benefit to most people. It is doubtful that it will ever do anything to assist the climate. There is zero evidence that electric cars are the answer.
I fully support electric cars but let the market figure it out.
Anyways my whole point was, the government hardly ever “lets the market decide”. It always exerts pressure on the economy whether directly or indirectly. And it is nothing new.
You are aware that General Motors gobbled up a lot of the public transportation railway systems in the USA and scrapped them in favour of the fancy new accessible automobiles, yes? This took place between 1920 and 1950. THEN the government installed the interstate superhighway systems. More for the automobile.
I have said nothing for or against electric vehicles in my comment above, please don’t derail the conversation.
Interstates were created for the military.
Nothing prevented other people from creating new rail systems. I wasn’t aware Gm bought rail systems. I thought they bought trollies and light rail systems.
That’s news to me, have a source for it?
Trollies and light rail systems are public transportation railways. The governments (state or otherwise) prevented other people from creating new rail systems. You can’t just decide to build a train system without approvals.
https://www.army.mil/article/198095/dwight_d_eisenhower_and_the_birth_of_the_interstate_highway_system#:~:text=Congress passed the Federal-Aid,landing strips for military aircraft.
I learned something new today!
The history is fascinating. It all started with a trip to San Francisco that took two weeks