^While “Production” may be down, as companies sit on leases, the leasing hasn’t. The objection to mass transit in our cities is just one example of where since before even the 1960’s, the oil and automotive industries have fought every effort to provide less consumptive “commuting”. There’s a lot more, like the breakdown in rail infrastructure under those CORPORATE “rail” companies, that are today oil and gas companies profiting off all those mineral resources they reteained when they sold off the surface estate they were given to build, and supposedly maintain IN PERPETUITY, those rail lines.
^While “Production” may be down, as companies sit on leases, the leasing hasn’t. The objection to mass transit in our cities is just one example of where since before even the 1960’s, the oil and automotive industries have fought every effort to provide less consumptive “commuting”. There’s a lot more, like the breakdown in rail infrastructure under those CORPORATE “rail” companies, that are today oil and gas companies profiting off all those mineral resources they reteained when they sold off the surface estate they were given to build, and supposedly maintain IN PERPETUITY, those rail lines.