"They paved paradise to put up a parking lot"

The city where I live and many other cities in Sweden, those who are elected decided over our heads that electric streetcars belonged to the past, and was to be replaced by buses, telling us that it will save millions because petrol is cheap. All electric streetcars where gone by 1972 and replaced by buses. In 1973 came the first oil crises and nothing became cheap at all and buses polluted the air (a fact that took all those politicians by surprise).