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  • Study: U.S. Has 118 Year Supply of Natural Gas
    I was born in 1929. I read several years ago that it was possible to get on a street car in Portland, Maine, in 1930, and ride to the end of the line. Then you could get on the next municipal street car service and, by riding to the end of successive lines, you could go all the way to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, just riding streetcars. This may have not been such a pleasant trip in February, but it may demonstrate the robustness of public transportation before the end of WW2 when public transportation was dismantled in favor of cars. I also recall riding in rubber tired buses in 1938 in Shreveport, Louisiana. These buses had a boom overhead that pulled electricity from an overhead line, just like a street car. I think they were called "trackless trolleys". I believe that dependable, low cost, public transportation is a requirement for us to cope with the fuel crisis, and it really is a crisis.
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