There is no public transportation in the US except city buses and basically one high speed (for the USA) rail service between Boston, NY and DC.

Maybe it is not $4 a gallon that moves the nation to rebuilding the network of public transportation that once existed, but it is coming at higher prices.

For the $3 trillion we spent in Iraq (all costs in) we could have built a nationwide rail system that would have no equal, instead we have one that Bulgaria would be ashamed of.