On Jun 5, 1:16*am, gpsman wrote:
On Jun 4, 9:10*pm, wrote:



Aren't the interstates and local roads the trucks' infrastructure? * I
don't know if having your business massively subsidized by the
government really counts as a plus.

"The grants made between 1850 and 1871 turned over to the railroad
companies about 159 million acres of the public domain, an area
exceeding five states the size of Pennsylvania."
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- gpsman

If you agree to spend billions of your own money on this risky
venture, we'll give you a whole bunch of worthless (at the time)
buffalo pasture and desert. Such a deal!

Anyway, that's startup funding in support of social policy, not
ongoing, never-ending maintenance subsidy. Not the same thing.