For sure and it revolutionized personal mobility, jobs, industry, etc. gasoline was a huge step in our advancement as a society. We’ve just followed it too exclusively and held onto it too long.
1970’s had oil shock and the creation of Amtrak to hold off the collapse of passenger rail. Imagine if instead of listening to industry lobbying to rescue manufacturers, we had used Amtrak to invest in passenger rail. Imagine if we had been building out useful passenger rail since then? The technology existed