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Date:         Mon, 24 Apr 2006 00:23:53 -0500
Reply-To:     Jeff Palmer <jpalmer@MTS.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Jeff Palmer <jpalmer@MTS.NET>
Subject:      Re: Gas price war / costs of road trips
Comments: To: Joy Hecht <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To:  <4tf3li$6v7gu9@smtp02a.lnh.mail.rcn.net>
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> Couldn't agree more!  I've never heard about the 'oil conspiracy'
> but the General Motors/transit conspiracy is well documented.  Are
> you thinking of the same thing?


http://www.lovearth.net/gmdeliberatelydestroyed.htm or google GM
transit conspiracy.


Jeff




> 6.  In the 1950s (I think) the oil industry in this country took an
> active
> role in wiping out public transit to force people into cars.  (I'm not
> making that up - it's not just anti-car scuttlebutt!)  This took
> the form of
> buying municipal bus companies and then shutting them down. This
> helped get
> Americans dependent on doing everything in cars, with the housing
> patterns
> that followed.
>
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