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This morning's San Fran CHRONICLE has a piece about current gas prices. Guess what. The 1973-4 oil crisis should have been a wake-up call about depending on imported oil. Why do you think the French went all-out on the TGV system? But did America learn anything? Of course not. We think we have an eternal right to do as we please, which includes burning as much cheap oil as we feel like. Don't ask where the ever-increasing supply of cheap oil will come from. (Iraq, anyone?) <br /> <br /> The Nixon Administration decided that the NE Corridor should be electrified clear to South Station, Boston, by the Bicentenial, but Jerry Ford's Secretary of Transportation, William T. Coleman, scotched the project, officially because Amtrak didn't try hard enough to find minority contractors to put up the wire. Mr. Coleman incidentally remarked that the passenger train is like the outhouse; there was a time when it was useful, but now we have better things. <br /> <br /> Somehow I don't think the freedom George Washington's Continental Army left bloody footprints in the snow at Valley Forge for is the right to drive a gashog to the 7-11 to buy a sixpack.
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