Comment by simgt

> Nowhere because the USA has an excellent internal flight and interstate highway system instead

Both being impossible to decouple from fossil fuels consumption at current scale, essentially.

> End result: when Yeltsin visited NASA in the 1980s he demanded a surprise inspection of a local supermarket. NASA didn't impress him, but the 30,000+ products for sale in a mundane shop blew him away

I have no idea whether this anecdote is true, but it wouldn't be surprise me one bit for an always-drank dude who made the army shell the parliament of his own country.