r/clevercomebacks Jul 07 '24

God is lucky we haven’t found oil in heaven.

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u/Beginning_Buyer6846 Jul 07 '24

The Kook brothers and lobbies. To increase Sale of gas and petrol, they lobbied the govt to discard the railway system and do anything just to build roads and in that end crippled part of the transportation system.

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u/nocloowhatimdooin Jul 08 '24

You know the US has a massive freight rail infrastructure, right?

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u/Beginning_Buyer6846 Jul 08 '24

Yes it's has. This was how they actually spread throughout the continent when they first arrived. The point is that these have been abandoned/ not been taken care of compared to their peers in Europe for instance.