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Re:100 companies responsible for 71% of greenhouse gas emiss... by rayiner on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @11:13AM (#14744842)
Isolated anecdotes aside, oil companies had very little to do with how American cities are designed.
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Re:100 companies responsible for 71% of greenhouse gas emiss... by justforFranz on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @05:05PM (#14748057)
Oil companies had conducted research into global warming decades before the public had become aware of it. And they did nothing.
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Re:100 companies responsible for 71% of greenhouse gas emiss... by stevedt on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @12:05PM (#14745281)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...

Auto, tire and oil companies had an affect in some places.

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Re:100 companies responsible for 71% of greenhouse gas emiss... by rayiner on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @01:57PM (#14746360)
The poster I was replying to didn't say these companies merely "had an affect in some places." He suggested that they were the dominant reason for and "played a huge part" in how American cities were designed. Then handful of examples you point to do not suggest that these companies even moved the needle in how cities were designed.
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