by Gary C. Gibson

Created on: June 06, 2007   Last Updated: October 08, 2009

Energy and materials are not free, yet the nation is politically free superficially at least. If the costs and work required to provide free public transportation were born by the rich or those able to afford it then they would be free. The public will for a variety of reasons does not wish to pay for a free public mass transportation system in the United States.

A second method to make public mass transportation free would be to work to create lower cost public transportation systems. Reducing energy requirements per unit of distance travelled per traveller is one obvious goal. Neither is there a necessity that the traveller be a passenger rather than a self-determining director. Such a case might be such as when a micro-fuel cell powered ultra-light trike with rear storage compartment efficiently has a travelling lane for itself alongside that of foreign made global corporate fossil fuel powered vehicles. In a starving world bio-fuels are also immoral-we wouldn't want free public transport powered by vegetable oil.

Some regions do have special advantage in transport modes that might be exploited by the public. Slope declines, opportunities for storing wind generated electrical power and solar powered mass transportation 'sidewalks' at high speeds might be practical in some locations and times as local physical engineers might discover working with ecological economists.

Freedom means ranges of motion unbonded. Transportation efficiency ought to have a effective of efficiency coefficient for cost as possible inclusive of the public sector. Yet the economic structure of the U.S.A. implicitly works against increases in efficiency-even the Congressional emergency defense budget supplemental added 20 billion dollars to the 100 billion base for non-defense items such as paying people 3500 dollars for autos made since 1989 if they buy a vehicle that gets 4 miles per gallon more. The incredible waste in that program is at the high end of public spending.; An infrastructure of investing in fossil fuel vehicles is reinforced with the passion of serious Elvis fans-complete idiocy. The inefficiency of producing more, marginally more efficient vehicles is radically inefficient in several degrees.

The auto infrastructure axis of inefficiency is a hillbilly kind of feuding structure coupled with sensuality of auto fetish persons and precludes creation of a new transportation infrastructure that is founded in logical minimal energy use for transportation. Some kind of an

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