Should The Government Regulate Intermodal Transportation?

Everyone dreams of living in a world where they could do whatever they please, if that was the case some of us would wake up whenever we please or not go to work at all, but these would be the people who mean no harm. It is sad to say, that in the world we live in today, if everyone had to their way, and stretch their limits, some would do it at the expense of others. One of the reasons we have government is to protect the less fortunate, the people and things that are limited from the endangerment of others. The planet is a very fragile place, and we have seen the adverse effects of industrialization on the environment. There are people and industries that wish to diminish the restriction that the government has on intermodal transportation, but I do not agree with that, I believe that we need government to regulate the growth and effects of intermodal transportation on the population. …show more content…
The author made references to some good example in the past where government regulations turned out to be negative for intermodal transportation. The implementation of anti price-discrimination laws by the government in the late nineteen-century really hurt the railroads, but these laws were place by the government to prevent schemes of price-discrimination. “ These laws were repealed in the late 1870s after the financial situation of the railroads deteriorated so dramatically that the very existence of the railroads and the service they provided was threatened”() in this case the government anti price-discrimination laws was to hash, but at the end the government implemented these laws to protect the