Google "Roger Rabbit", which sends you to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_American_streetcar_scandal Many
links.
On 12/17/10 8:03 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
Many years ago, perhaps more than 40, I swear I read a series of
articles, later published as a book, that laid out the basic
principles of entropy, told the history (perhaps mythic) of how GM
tore up the trolley lines in LA to get its dirty busses to replace
clean trolley cars, argued that we would in the next 40 years
transition to natural gas as the price of other fossil fuels rose,
etc., etc. I think I read it in the New Yorker, and I have had two
candidates for who wrote it, both of which have turned out to be
wrong: Bradford Snell and Barry Commoner. Does anybody else remember
it? Is anybody else on this list OLD enough to have read it?
I promise I have googled the hell out it to no avail.
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
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