Well I've never used public transit in the states so I don't know the specifics, but the general idea is; if more people take the bus, there needs to be additional and more frequent busses to fulfill the demand, and those additional busses are funded by these new users paying tickets/passes. The more users the service has, the more funding it gets, and the more develloped it becomes.

It doesn't solve all the problems, but if you can reduce the ammount of cars on the road by even 25%, that's a huge step.

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Originally posted by Project-K Well I've never used public transit in the states so I don't know the specifics, but the general idea is; if more people take the bus, there needs to be additional and more frequent busses to fulfill the demand, and those additional busses are funded by these new users paying tickets/passes. The more users the service has, the more funding it gets, and the more develloped it becomes. It doesn't solve all the problems, but if you can reduce the ammount of cars on the road by even 25%, that's a huge step.

The problem is how do you get buses to go to all the places people need to go?



If people aren't being served by their public transportation already, they're not very likely to start using it in hopes that it will eventually be useful to them.

The large cities in the U.S. in general have outstanding public transport (New York, Chicago, and LA are all prime examples), but the vast majority of the population doesn't live in large cities - they live in po-dunk towns or suburbs so they can all have their white picket fence and 2.5 children w/ fully equipped back yard, and it's this, and a lack of development or use, that keeps a reliable and efficient mass transit system a relative impossibility in this country.

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another problem with the "biofuel" craze is its mostly shitty ass corn ethanol, which has been found to be the lowest yielding ethanol produced. there is the cellulosic ethanol that is becoming larger. its much better yielding and can be made at home without the need for crops. iirc you can use your garbage amongst other things to produce this.

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