Documentary: Taken For A Ride

Any time I hear Europeans complaining on the internet about the cost of their gas, I like to show them this image:

I don't think you can really consider yourself having gone on a road trip until you've been on one where it takes 20 some hours just to go two States north.

In any case, it's a bummer there's not more feasible public transportation in the States. It's unreliable, it can't really take you any where, and after living in Japan and Spain where the public transportation is pretty top notch, it really is kind of a bummer when you have to take your car everywhere. Granted, cities in Europe and Japan are pretty walkable. The ones in America... not so much.

This documentary starts off talking about cable cars and the people who came in and gutted the system and moves on to the building of the interstates, the the rich few who always seemed to be spending their money pushing the policies that would give them even more.

My personal favorite moment was at about 30:00 when theres a propaganda bit showing some teacher basically saying "WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!?" which also happens to be my least favorite argument for just about anything ever.

I don't think any time soon we'll see any good advancement in the public transportation in the States... but it's nice to imagine...