The following reasoning comes from a British newspaper of a few years ago. How differently do you think readers would respond to it in Britain and in the American Mid-West (assuming the same piece was...

The following reasoning comes from a British newspaper of a few years ago. How differently do you think readers would respond to it in Britain and in the American Mid-West (assuming the same piece was published in a newspaper there)?

We need to make rail travel more attractive to travellers. There are so many cars on the roads that the environment and human safety are under threat. Rail travel should be made cheaper. Everyone wants the roads to be less crowded, but they still want the convenience of being able to travel by road themselves. People will not abandon the car in favour of the train without some new incentive.