[kempster]

Oh great, another rail system that we can subsidize for the next hundred years. Drill for oil, it will have twice the impact.

[dennisw]

Oh great, another rail system that we can subsidize for the next hundred years. Drill for oil, it will have twice the impact.
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Energy imports are a major part of our trade deficit. Put a tariff on foreign energy imports and produce more at home. Produce much much more coal, natural gas, oil at home. Use more natural gas for transportation. Burn more coal to make electricity to be used by electric automobiles

Being more self reliant this way would help our economy tremendously and give us more energy independence from Muslims, from Mexico and Hugo Chavez. Canada is the only reliable nation we buy energy from

[tanknetter]

Oh great, another rail system that we can subsidize for the next hundred years.

Word.

I live in DC, and our tinkertoy Metro system is pretty much collapsing around us. Poorly designed (non-standardized components like the railcars, two sets of parallel tracks instead of three, etc) and maintained (but the union employees have one of the best sweetheart contracts in the country), they're now in the process of building a 23-mile extension onto a system they can't even maintain that will result in a longer and more costly commute for people that actually use it.