Thread: I'm so fucking tired of people complaining about the price of gas
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Old 06.26.2008, 10:12 AM   #18
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Originally Posted by SpectralJulianIsNotDead
Gas prices are around 4 dollars a gallon right now.

Unfortunately we lack the great public transportation that Europe has that makes up for it. We used to, but the gov't completely fucked that up with overregulation- it made it completely unprofitable. There used to be a passenger trains all around Pittsburgh that would take you downtown or away from town.

in the 1950s general motors bought all the trolley systems (except for san francisco's) & ripped them apart.

what happened after that was this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_sprawl
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