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Oil companies, vehicle manufacturers, tire companies and other powerful lobbyists have been doing this for decades so it’s an unsurprising theory. https://en.w

Oil companies, vehicle manufacturers, tire companies and other powerful lobbyists have been doing this for decades so it’s an unsurprising theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp... It’s why we don’t have rail in the US like you see in Europe. At one point in time we had a ton of rail and streetcar networks but these groups destroyed it all because it was a threat to their business. For oil companies, so is hydrogen.

andrepd 2y ago
Plenty of this in Europe. In my country there's less km of rail now than there was in 1910.
- newuser94303 2y ago
  which country?
  - masklinn 2y ago
    Pretty much all of them. At least in the west, less sure about the east. France had 70000km of rail around ww1, now it has about 30000. The main (though not only) casualty was the rural narrow gauge lines ("local interest network") which got obliterated by car and low productivity (about 20000km progressively closed from about 1930 to 1960, a handful survive as tourist attractions).
  - rkosk 2y ago
    Dunno which country they are in but this has happened in a lot of places. This is a an infamous example in the UK: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeching_cuts https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeching_cuts Which this politician who owned a major road engineering company was quite involved in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Marples https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Marples
staunton 2y ago
> ... a threat to their business. For oil companies, so is hydrogen. Hydrogen is no threat to oil and gas companies, quite the contrary, as discussed by comments all around. For example, they can produce hydrogen from fossil fuels and justify expanding gas infrastructure while talking about some "future transition".

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Oil companies, vehicle manufacturers, tire companies and other powerful lobbyists have been doing this for decades so it’s an unsurprising theory. https://en.w

by whalesalad 2y ago

andrepd 2y ago
Plenty of this in Europe. In my country there's less km of rail now than there was in 1910.
- newuser94303 2y ago
  which country?
  - masklinn 2y ago
    Pretty much all of them. At least in the west, less sure about the east. France had 70000km of rail around ww1, now it has about 30000. The main (though not only) casualty was the rural narrow gauge lines ("local interest network") which got obliterated by car and low productivity (about 20000km progressively closed from about 1930 to 1960, a handful survive as tourist attractions).
  - rkosk 2y ago
    Dunno which country they are in but this has happened in a lot of places. This is a an infamous example in the UK: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeching_cuts https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeching_cuts Which this politician who owned a major road engineering company was quite involved in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Marples https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Marples
staunton 2y ago
> ... a threat to their business. For oil companies, so is hydrogen. Hydrogen is no threat to oil and gas companies, quite the contrary, as discussed by comments all around. For example, they can produce hydrogen from fossil fuels and justify expanding gas infrastructure while talking about some "future transition".