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  • From: Don Bowen KI6DIU <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Globalism
  • Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:12:01 -0800

At 2/24/2008, you wrote:
When
oil depeletes so far that we cannot even power trains with it (unlikely, that),
then it would be a good use of a few tons of coal or a few cords of wood, or
saved up electricity to power a tain to deliver oranges.

One vision of a reduced oil supply is an increase in electric trains. At one time you could travel just about anywhere in the midwest by electric interurban. There were miles of electrified rails in the Pacific northwest and most large cities has extensive electrified local and interurban rail lines. My mother remembers the Big Red Cars and outings to Long Beach. The convenience of the automobile fueled by cheap energy ended the electric rail.



Don Bowen Awl Knotted Up KI6DIU
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