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   From: kymhorsell@gmail.com   
      
   In sci.environment David LaRue  wrote:   
   > "Leroy N. Soetoro"  wrote in   
   > news:lnsB14AB5C1E25486F089P2473@0.0.0.2:   
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   > It took years for gasoline stations to emerge that would enable long distance   
   > travel.  Why would the EV or BEV or whatever technology be buit up overnight   
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   You can imagine some of these charcaters as buggy whip salesmen in the 1890s   
   saying automobiles will never be a thing.   
   People have illogically argued that every new tech could never not be   
   successful because it was new.   
   Conservative thinking only predicts the past. ;)   
      
   --   
   [Cars will nebba be a thing!]   
   Horatio Nelson Jackson (March 25, 1872 - January 14, 1955) was an American   
   physician [b Toronto] and automobile pioneer. In 1903, he and driving   
   partner Sewall K. Crocker became the first people to drive an automobile   
   across the United States.   
   [The journey took around 63 days, used 800 gal of gas for their 2nd hand 2   
   cyl Winton, and cost around $210,000 in 2016 dollars].   
   -- wiki   
      
   [Railways will never be a thing!]   
   Top reasons why Mr Stephenson's "railway" will never work:   
   (1) The project will drain the King's treasury.   
   (2) The noise will scare the cows and sour their milk.   
   (3) At 37 mph air will be sucked out of the passengers' lungs.   
   (4) The vibration will injure passengers.   
   (5) The common people will be encouraged to come to London.   
   -- Arthur Wellesley  Duke of Wellington, c1828   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)