Are Some Haters Of Government Sensing The Looming Regeneracy?

[Kinser79]

(03-18-2017, 11:01 AM)beechnut79 Wrote:

(03-17-2017, 04:43 PM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote:

(03-17-2017, 04:34 PM)Kinser79 Wrote: Rags....

You want Mass Transit?  Leave that to the states and to the cities.  Interstate rail and air transport can be left with the DOT.  

I'd include Fannie and Freddie.  There is more than enough fat to trim.

As to the DOD yeah, it has a lot of bullshit that has to be wrapped up too.  An aggressive withdrawal back to our Hemisphere will do much to aid in that.

Yes, I think the USA has an auto fetish. Autos belch out a lot of pollution. Also, in rural states like Oklahoma, I whistle stops along current rail lines would be nice. At present, if you want to fly, you have to drive more than 70 miles to hit the closest airport. I also like to pull any lever to get rid of the addiction to foreign oil.  I'd love to see what happens to  oil price once the externalities of defending oil imports gets tacked on.

Does anybody on board here really think that the days of our auto-centric culture are about numbered? This theory has been floated around from time to time even since the long gasoline lines of 1973-74. But not much has changed since, and if anything we have, with the exception of in a few large older cities, become even more auto dependent since then. I believe our love affair with the auto will have to end, but as I am now 72, I don't expect it to happen while I am still alive.

Not to speak for anyone else, but it seems to me that anything that is unsustainable will eventually come to an end. The question is do we have the will to implement those things necessary to have an orderly transition from now, to a transportation network that is distinctly not now.

At present we have Boomers (and some Xers) who are blocking progress in this area because they've completely bought into the whole notion that cars and driving are freedom. A notion I've never fully understood. Personally I'm not to fond of driving, and would rather wait on a bus or street car or some other conveyance.