> Couldn't agree more!  I've never heard about the 'oil conspiracy'
> but the General Motors/transit conspiracy is well documented.  Are
> you thinking of the same thing?

http://www.lovearth.net/gmdeliberatelydestroyed.htm or google GM
transit conspiracy.

Jeff

> 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.
>