Утилизация технологий и уничтожение античной цивилизации

Cemetery of trams killed by General Motors, o. Terminal, California, 1956. By the beginning of the 20th century, in almost every village in the United States with a population of more than 2,500 people, there was its own electric road system, in addition to this, the tram lines connected a huge number of cities to each other. The longest continuous route was more than 1,500 kilometers, and the average speed of intercity trains was 130 km / h. For some time, the tram companies and auto giants managed to coexist and develop normally, but by the 1920s, sales of General Motors cars began to plummet. Those who wanted and could afford a personal car, have already purchased it, the remaining 90% moved mainly by electric vehicles. A 1974 report by US Senate advisor Bradford Snell provided evidence that from 1936 to 1950 General Motors, in conjunction with Firestone Tire, Standard Oil of California and Phillips Petroleum, created substitute holding companies through which they bought tram lines and eliminated them. Di