>This is a 50% truth. Its not telling you the other 50% of the reason why we don't have better public transportation: The Oil Industry and its lobbying... Here is the other 50% of the truth: Every time a city (or a state) puts out a bill for building more public transportation, the oil industry kills it (with lobbying and advertisement). The reason is simple: they don't want to loose that market share of people driving, because that uses a lot more oil than public transport... and now folks, you have the whole truth :) Cheers.