“We need to reverse the idiotic trade policies that are sucking the lifeblood out our nation and put an absolute end to the political class pursuit of a dumbed-down, impoverished, low-wage, low-benefit, suvservient population.”
Since train travel is one of the most expensive forms of travel per passenger mile, investing in it is counter productive. If you want a full on national approach for investment I think you would need to consider (1) nuclear, (2) coal to oil, and (3) and oil/natural gas exploration. The benefits to these three areas is it will reduce the cost of energy in total and achieve energy independence. Lower cost of energy is one of the big inputs to profitablility. New technologies (coal-oil, pebble reactors, and offshore rigs) would generate meaningful salaries and position our country as the leader in serious businesses. Pissing money away on solar and choo choo trains is a waste of capital and most importantly a diversion from the future.
Since train travel is one of the most expensive forms of travel per passenger mile,
Actually the exact opposite is true, but I've come to expect such disinformation from the Global Oil Pimps.
Passenger rail systems are not only more fuel efficient per passenger-mile compared to individual automobiles, they are also much more durable and have longer ecoomic lifespans. So when you tally up all the passenger miles they accumulate over the course of 20, 30.. even sometimes 40 years of service, they are a MUCH more efficient use of capital than the tens of thousands of individual automobiles that would have to be purchased to accumulate the same number of passenger-miles.