Mary, Canada used to have a really good railroad system. Now most of them in my neck of the woods have been turned into bike and atv trails. I used to think (even in the eighties), why the hell are they removing the railroads, we might need them someday...duh. With a couple of engines you can haul hundreds of containers and they're out of the way. I live in a small rural area, I'm so out in the woods it's not even funny, yet trucks are passing in front of my door at least every couple of minutes, and you wouldn't dare take a walk here either. Simply f'ing annoying. Trains at least you could operate away from residential areas, then I realized, trains were too efficient and the government knew there was more money to be made with the trucking system the way it is now, so they got rid of as many railroads as they could to make sure that when "what is happening now, would happen" they would better profit from it and it would be too costly to rebuild the railroad system, so they wouldn't even have to bring it up as a solution. That's how stupid government is.
Gill, I support you totally on your boycotting the oil industry, I do too, and it's tough, cause if you start boycotting before everybody else does you are viewed as a wacko and things are not in place to help you do it either. I've been preparing myself mentally for what is coming. This baby is gonna come screeching to a halt and it won't be funny. People just won't have a choice. I've thought about the horse and buggy, but can you imagine the abuse some of these animals would go through if this were to become a mainstream alternative, the need for them to perform like a car does... I don't want to think about it. We wouldn't need to go to that extreme, the solutions and technologies are available but the capitalists make sure they are never developed cause there's still money to be made in oil.
I've totally had enough of the low lifes in govenment and the oil barons and middle east multi trillionaires!
So my solution is: let's get rid of the suits. We'll all sleep better at night.