Write a commentIn World War II, Ford and General Motors used their auto plants in Germany to build tanks, engines, jet propulsion systems, and jet bombers for the Luftwaffe and the Nazi army.
In 1974, Bradford C. Snell wrote that General Motors "at the same time [had] its American plants produced aircraft engines for the U.S. Army Air Corps.
"Snell was a subcommittee staffer for the Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee. In 1974, Snell presented a paper to the Senate committee that documented "For forty years, a war has been raging in this country between automobiles and mass transit... It became a relentless campaign to destroy America's rail and bus systems... This is the war General Motors, Ford and Chrysler have been waging against public transport."
Snell continued, "The Big Three car companies used their vast economic power to restructure America into a land of big cars and diesel trucks... The Big Three car companies reshaped ground transportation to serve corporate wants instead of social needs." The Big Three's "fundamental interest' was "selling big, high-profit cars powered by conventional piston engines.
"In 1947, the Federal District Court of Southern California indicted nine corporations on counts of "conspiring to acquire control of a number of transit companies, forming a transportation monopoly." Snell wrote, "In the late 1930's General Motors and allied highway interests acquired the local transit companies, scrapped the pollution-free electric trains, tore down the power transmission lines, ripped up the tracks.
"Between 1938 and 1950, the transportation monopoly of huge corporations forcibly acquired the transit systems of more than 25 American cities. "By the mid-1970s, hundreds of communities throughout the Nation lacked any form of public transportation.
"NASA explained, "Over the last century, burning of fossil fuels like coal and oil has increased the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2)." The Environmental Protection Agency wrote, "Carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide... have increased the greenhouse effect and caused the earth's surface temperature to rise. Burning fossil fuels changes the climate more than any other human activity."
Research from Harvard University found "that more than 8 million people died in 2018 from fossil fuel pollution." That meant "that air pollution from burning fossil fuels like coal and diesel was responsible for about 1 in 5 deaths worldwide.'
The insurance industry has sounded the warning sirens. One of the world's leading insurance companies, Swiss Re, released its 2025 SONAR report. Swiss Re wrote, "Extreme heat events can have a large impact on human health. Recent data show that around 480,000 deaths per year can be attributed to extreme heat events.
"Robert Hunziker wrote, "[There are] record wildfires, record floods, record hurricanes, record tornados, record coral bleaching, record glacial melt, record droughts, record sea level rise, record dry riverbeds, record heat deaths, record ocean acidification, record insect loss, and record marine loss."
The increase in climate chaos isn't accidental. It's the direct result of a criminal conspiracy perpetrated by Big Oil, Big Gas, and Big Auto.
