The September 9 , 1939 Syracuse Herald Journal ( Syracuse , NY ) ran a curt piece about the shift from railroad track to buses as a form of aggregated passage in New York City . The part cease on an optimistic notation about bus and alternate energy of the future . An excerption appears below .
Doubtless some day the operators will have to meet the problem of increased fuel costs , for use of goods and services of gasoline can not go on forever at the present charge per unit . But the day seems far upstage when suppression will be necessary – so far distant that no one salve a few scientists and government conservation citizenry are giving it any mentation .
Even should shortage of gasoline develop , say , 50 years hence , it seems altogether probable that some newfangled and economical means of propelling buses will have been unwrap by that time .
sure scientists are convinced that in the comparatively near time to come a method of transporting electric current by wireless will be discovered which will make it potential to ply motorbus with exponent from primal developing stations .
See also : Nazi Paleo - Futurism ( 1941)‘Flying Saucer ’ Buses ( 1950 )
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