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To: Phantom Lord
Everything you buy got to where you bought it by truck. Build all the rail you want, but eventually every product you purchase still got to the store in a truck.

Not my electricity, nor the raw corn syrup in my pepsi, nor the steak in my bicycle, nor the coal used to process it, nor everything else hauled by rail. Only most final products get to stores by truck but if most of the steps in the process were on rail, your point becomes kind of meaningless doesn't it.

35 posted on 12/20/2001 9:35:12 AM PST by biblewonk
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To: biblewonk
Not my electricity, nor the raw corn syrup in my pepsi, nor the steak in my bicycle, nor the coal used to process it, nor everything else hauled by rail. Only most final products get to stores by truck but if most of the steps in the process were on rail, your point becomes kind of meaningless doesn't it.

Alright, ill give you electricity, but how did the components of the plant get there? I am sure trucks were involved a great deal.

How did the Pepsi get to the store you bought it at? Why do you have a steak in your bicycle? And how did the bicycle get to the bike store and the steak to the supermarket or butcher?

And since you only mentioned industrial rail, is that what you plan on having us ride?

41 posted on 12/20/2001 9:41:32 AM PST by Phantom Lord
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To: biblewonk
Only most final products get to stores by truck but if most of the steps in the process were on rail

It is not the case that most of the raw materials that go into all products got the the assembly plant by rail. It just is not the case.

43 posted on 12/20/2001 9:42:52 AM PST by Phantom Lord
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