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Re:All poverty is energy poverty by JumpCrisscross on Monday September 05, 2022 @05:10PM (#32729527)
> who at some point mentioned the anecdote that as a young man he had coincidentally been involved as a junior officer in an experimental military convoy from coast to coast in the 1910s

Eisenhower whipped votes for the ‘56 Act on the basis of military mobilisation. It wasn’t a military project per se. And there were plenty of other motivations and votes. But the logic is far from urban myth. The 1910 convoys spurred the ‘21 Act, which was more limited and civil in nature.

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Re:All poverty is energy poverty by bobthepanda on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @08:13PM (#32744815)
That being said, highways are terrible for mass mobilization, mostly because they also represent pretty easy targets to bomb (for either attack or defense), and also because of how quickly they become congested.

They were amongst the first targets of the war in Ukraine, for instance.

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