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President Bush can't just snap his fingers and make new rails appear. The EIS for this project will be relatively small because it only involves an existing rail corridor.

What takes the most time is acquiring properties for the wider Right-of-Way and new new staging yard, drawing up the plans, staking, grading and laying the rails. In other words, all of the things that would need to be done even if there were no environmental laws. I've made a living working for both companies involved in environmental compliance and companies involved in civil engineering, so I know what I speak of.

These anti-Bush rants are getting more ridiculous by the day.

I don't see it as an 'anti-bush' rant. More of an anti-beauracracy rant.

I don't expect W to snap his fingers and make it go away. I do expect him to take action to at least make some progress towards remedying the problem, especially given the current global situation with the WOT and the emerging 3rd world demands on energy.

IMHO, we need to move from coal-fired plants anyways. That alone would free up the resources that are being consumed mining, and transporting the coal, and at the same time relieving the need to acquire more land for rails.