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Why don't we hear government and private businesses pressuring to revitalize the U.S. rail system to help reduce the oil crisis?
Name:
Maggie Newton
City & State: Brattleboro, Vt.
Question/Comment: Why don't we hear the government and private businesses pressuring to revitalize the US rail system to help reduce the oil crisis? I thought the rails were the most fuel-efficient form of transportation.
Paul Solman: From a little reading in order to answer your question, I've found that it's debatable that "rails [are] the most fuel-efficient form of transportation." Seems that, in most instances, they're no better than cars. That may be largely because they haven't been forced to become more energy efficient in recent years, as cars have. But it's apparently not obvious how you do that.
-- Posted June 26, 2008 | Comments (1) | Permalink
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Surely after today's programme April 21 on Rail thru Chicago, the President's home city, referencing the UK, Germany & Canada; it would make extreme sense to have an international parliamentary seminar, lead by the Rail Czar ie. the Secretary of Transportation, with the above counterparts along with Switzerland & Japan.