[PEN-L:8204] Re: Re: Re: Re: California Green Party AssemblyRepresentive requests help

[Eugene Coyle <eugenecoyle@xxxxxxx>]

Snell is working on a book which includes the GM conspiracy -- he is interviewed
on camera in the film I've mentioned.  But the book always seems to be coming
out soon.  Sort of like the stuff I write.

    I've heard (maybe here on PEN_L?) that the book now includes GM's
connections with the Nazis.

Gene Coyle

Peter Dorman wrote:

> The locus classicus for all this GM conspiracy stuff is the Snell Report
> to the Senate Antitrust Committee from the mid 70s.  Rumor has it that
> Bradford Snell has been working assiduously on a book-length version of
> this study, and that it is due to come out sooner rather than later.
>
> Peter
>
> Jim Devine wrote:
> >
> > Peter wrote:
> > >There is evidence that General Motors conspired to destroy dozens of
> > public transit systems in the 1930's and '40s, ...<
> >
> > I don't know about other cities, but GM and others definitely conspired to
> > destroy the "Red Line" trolley system in Los Angeles. In fact, they
> > succeeded in doing so, making LA into Car Heaven (complete with the
> > Peterson Automobile Museum, a temple for worshipping cars). I have a map of
> > the old Red Line system on my office wall: where once there were trolleys,
> > there are now often freeways, often parallel to the Red Lines.
> >
> > Even though this conspiracy shows up in the film "who framed Roger
> > Rabbit?," we should not rely on this conspiracy theory alone. In addition,
> > the upper-class (and to a lesser extent, middle-class) whites who ran Los
> > Angeles in those days had given up on the Red Cars. The trolley system
> > needed a lot of investment in order to make up for normal wear and tear. In
> > addition, investment was needed to deal with the fact that the trolleys
> > conflicted with the cars at large number of crossings -- and the period
> > after World War II was an era when people were in love with their cars (if
> > they could afford them). In a period of pro-car and laissez-faire sentiment
> > among those with political influence, this investment was not done.
> >
> > It wasn't just the GM conspiracy. It was also that the politically-relevant
> > public rolled over and played dead.
> >
> > Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx &
> > http://clawww.lmu.edu/Faculty/JDevine/jdevine.html