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Woman charges her electric car in her garage, USA, 1912 (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I remember learning from a teacher that the oil companies basically bought up transit lines and ripped up streetcar tracks as well as killing the electric car. It explains why my city struggles so hard to build subways and street car lines. There must still be lots of money lining pockets to keep the gasoline flowing

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Yep, big oil, auto manufacturers (who wanted to line their pockets), and politicians (who wanted to suburbanize / facilitate white flight from the cities) all colluded to divide the American public with dangerous roads and freeways, and sell us the machinery we'd need to navigate them.