thanks don for providing the actual facts on that - i was about to
start searching cause all i could remember on my own was the plot to
who framed roger rabbit

to think that one of their corporate slogans was "what is good for gm
is good for america"

it should have been more
in the words of ac/dc "dirty deeds done dirt cheap"

monte

On Apr 24, 2006, at 9:26 AM, don spence wrote:

"Between 1936 and 1950, National City Lines, a holding company
sponsored and funded by GM, Firestone, and Standard Oil of
California, bought out more than 100 electric surface-traction
systems in 45 cities (including New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis,
Salt Lake City, Tulsa, and Los Angeles) to be dismantled and replaced
with GM buses... In 1949 GM and its partners were convicted in
U.S.district court in Chicago of criminal conspiracy in this matter
and fined $5,000."

http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/archives/19/generalmotors.html

see also    http://www.bilderberg.org/ncl.htm

Ironically, GM no longer makes buses.   Or good cars for that matter.

On 23-Apr-06, at 10:00 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote:

> 6.  In the 1950s (I think) the oil industry in this country took an
> active
> role in wiping out public transit to force people into cars.  (I'm not
> making that up - it's not just anti-car scuttlebutt!)  This took
> the form of
> buying municipal bus companies and then shutting them down. This
> helped get
> Americans dependent on doing everything in cars, with the housing
> patterns
> that followed.
>

"I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse, and a turtle dove, and am still
on their trail. Many are the travelers I have spoken to concerning
them, describing their tracks and what calls they answered to. I have
met one or two who had heard the hound, and the tramp of the horse, and
even seen the dove disappear behind a cloud, and they seemed as anxious
to recover them as if they had lost them themselves." - henry thoreau