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Originally Posted by lutach
You nailed it. A lot of things now are either just to get attention and most important, a lot of money. All of the big corp. companies don't give a flying F    . It's sad, but it's the truth. |
Another BS move was GM buying out all the commuter rails then ripping them out. Then they get Congress to use our tax dollars to subsidize road building, where rail lines have to build and maintain their own tracks. Totally unfair adv, skewing the system.
I wonder what we could do if we invested more equally in high speed rail across the country, and took a large number of trucks off the road, freeing up the highways quite a bit. Rail is far more efficient than road travel, and does not pose the traffic hazards cranked out semi drivers do trying to make their delivery times. You need trucks on local routes, but driving a truck from LA to STL @ 60mph (not including rest stops, traffic and sleeping) burning up 10X the amt of fuel seems fraking stupid.
Could replace a lot of air travel as well. They are not as fast as a plane, but you waste so much time at an airport (also taxpayer subsidized), it may balance out quite a bit. The east coast is crowded, but in the midwest and west, you can lay tracks all over the place. 250-300mph on land can get you from NYC to LA pretty fast.
I wonder how much we could reduce FF use just by doing things more sensibly.