My prayer: Oh Lord, please save us from Euro environmentalists. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> Sorry AG, but that is just not so. Trucking firms enjoy huge
> subsidies from being able to use the interstate highways for free and
> not paying the true cost of their polluting fuel (which should be
> something like $20 a gallon if the applicable externalities were
> taken into account). In comparison with the enormous implicit subsidy
> to the private trucking industry, the cost of support clean, public
> transport like Amtrak is tiny.
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> Nathan
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> On Aug 2, 2010, at 7:30 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
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>> While I understand and agree with most of the fundamentals behind
>> why rail is more efficient than air-travel, what is the missing
>> link here is the economics. If it really was economically feasable
>> then private enterprise would be doing it. Airports and the
>> infrastructure required for air-travel are paid for though fees,
>> fuel taxes, leases and other means. Even though there is a large
>> portion which is taxation funded, this system exists for more than
>> just people-moving. A high-speed rail system would most likely be
>> single-vendor and wouldn't be too good for freight.
>>
>> Until rail-systems are fully integrated with the rest of our
>> transportation systems, it's nothing more than a point-to-point
>> solution or a novelty. If logic ruled the day, the rail-terminals
>> would be located at the airports.
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>> For crying out loud, just look at Amtrack. They avoid the logical
>> big cities in the midwest and instead go through podunk towns.
>>
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