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While I genuinely feel bad for economically disadvantaged workers with long commutes in used vehicles, I can't help but notice most of the complaints about fuel prices come from people who: A. Shout down anyone trying to improve public transportation infrastructure by saying it can't work in rural areas (it can, and has), and B. Own outrageously large personal vehicles that guzzle gas and houses with 2+ stall garages.
I'll listen to complaining from anyone who doesn't fall into one or both of these two groups.
Personally I think gas is still too cheap.
Gas should be prohibitively expensive. It’s price should reflect its impact.
Unfortunately this would crumble the entire US and possibly western economy. It works in most of the rest of the world because the commutes are smaller and the alternative transit is plentiful.
Yeah, we need to build the infrastructure.
Or let me correct that: Rebuild the infrastructure.
Even here in lowly South Dakota where I live, there was once a network of buses and trains that traveled between even small towns. That was all abandoned to appease the automotive gods.
Manitoba Canada used to have a decent train network from what i can tell, and now it just has nothing outside of Winnipeg