ZZ Wrote:
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> "seriously considered" electrification in 1945?
> The postwar era witnessed the absolute triumph of
> internal combustion. The same political power
> class that is now going ape over anti-carbon eco
> energy conversion is the same class that
> enthusiastically approved killing all electric
> rail and bus in the forties and fifties.
> ....


The late 1940s and early 1950s were also a period of massive expansion of electrification in Europe – ironically much of it paid for by the U.S. Federal government (through the Marshall Plan).


-- Ernest