I have been on the "Chunnel" considered one of the engineering miracles of the world. The 32-mile rail tunnel beneath the English Channel.
ENGLAND/FRANCE
London to Paris: 186 mph, 2 hours and 25 minutes (from $98 at eurostar.com)
Comparable flight: 1 hour and 20 minutes on EasyJet, $30
Eurostar carries more passengers than all of the airlines combined on both routes out of London.
As if the airlines aren't in enough trouble financially..here comes competition.
And Moore's "suggestion in a hat" scenario:..."impose a $2 tax on every gallon of gasoline..." ah.. whatever happened to drilling and becoming energy independent of foreign oil, as well?
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To: fight_truth_decay
So it’s ok for Moore to want GM to fail......
2 posted on
06/01/2009 9:04:48 PM PDT by
mockingbyrd
(Dick Cheney gets results!)
To: fight_truth_decay
3 posted on
06/01/2009 9:04:54 PM PDT by
2ndDivisionVet
("The unarmed man is not just defenseless - he is also contemptible." Machiavelli)
To: fight_truth_decay
Hate looks so ugly
Pretty sad that a fat nobody can try to act self righteous.
4 posted on
06/01/2009 9:05:30 PM PDT by
AmericanMade1776
( Obama Happens! Not my Fault!)
To: fight_truth_decay
Sorry Michael, Bullet Trains can only support passangers 600lbs or less.
Take the damn bus fat@$$!
5 posted on
06/01/2009 9:06:20 PM PDT by
avacado
To: fight_truth_decay
A $2 tax per gallon on gas? I wonder if Moore woud be as accepting of a $5 tax on each movie ticket and movie rental.
6 posted on
06/01/2009 9:07:07 PM PDT by
Sgt_Schultze
(Si vis pacem, para bellum)
To: fight_truth_decay
What is it with liberals’ fascination with light rail? You end up with transportation that runs on the same routes as cars and buses.
Face it—light rail exists because liberal snobs are too stuck up to ride a bus.
Bullet trains won’t work in a country as big as the U.S.A. We’re too spread out—cities and suburbs both. Airlines can make the trip in a more profitable manner.
7 posted on
06/01/2009 9:08:11 PM PDT by
JeffChrz
(Atlas will shrug.)
To: fight_truth_decay
It would be a real hoot to watch Moore’s publicity agent tried to load his lard ass into one of those new “smart” cars. LOL!
11 posted on
06/01/2009 9:10:09 PM PDT by
FlingWingFlyer
(Gibbs needs to be "exceedingly careful" when threatening the American people.)
To: fight_truth_decay
GM management wanted “cheap labor?” What a liar. I know someone who had a son who worked in transmissions at Gm - on the line and made way over $100,000 a year.
The UAW and liberalism killed GM. German and Japanese workers want to see their car companies succeed. UAW workers and union leaders just want to bleed the companies to death.
12 posted on
06/01/2009 9:10:29 PM PDT by
Frantzie
To: fight_truth_decay
Announce that we will have bullet trains criss-crossing this country in the next five years.No way in hell I'd ride 165 mph in anything built by the UAW.
To: fight_truth_decay
To pay for it all, he suggests a $2 per gallon federal tax. I predict that will indeed happen, and Americans will be paying $4 per gallon by July 4th and $8 by Election Day 2012.
To: fight_truth_decay
"Announce that we will have bullet trains criss-crossing this country in the next five years. Japan is celebrating the 45th anniversary of its first bullet train this year" And Japan is tiny. "Criss-crossing" 3,000 miles? good luck with that.
To: fight_truth_decay
I'll bet that Michael "Lard Ass" Moore doesn't try to haul his big butt around in a Chevy Volt.
What is Lard Ass going to do when no one is allowed to sell a car big enough to carry him around anymore?
17 posted on
06/01/2009 9:15:51 PM PDT by
Bubba_Leroy
(The Obamanation Crisis - America Held Hostage)
To: fight_truth_decay
Why does he remind me of a big hog?
21 posted on
06/01/2009 9:22:06 PM PDT by
lonestar
(Obama is turning Bush's "mess" into a catastrophe.)
To: fight_truth_decay
How does someone that fat and stupid live so long?
28 posted on
06/01/2009 9:33:00 PM PDT by
hometoroost
(Torture? Would you rather do 5 years at Gitmo or 5 hours with the Muslims?)
To: fight_truth_decay
I contend that it is one of life’s greatest tragedies that Michael Moore’s mother never made the acquaintance of the recently departed George Tiller.
29 posted on
06/01/2009 9:42:00 PM PDT by
mkjessup
To: fight_truth_decay
Sadly, the worker bees who think Moore and BHO are on their side will never understand what is happening here. They don't realize they will lose their jobs and livelihood because of the "green" agenda of the left. The union thugs won't explain it either - they will just keep blaming "bush" and the right, and the morons won't ever be the wiser.
The same senario will play out among illegals and the left - think Sierra Club and overpopulation and water supply, etc. etc.
I kinda like it . . .
30 posted on
06/01/2009 9:54:54 PM PDT by
PLK
To: fight_truth_decay
Michael Moore is even a more despicable POS than I thought him before, since he is happy to see people suffer unnecessarily. And deluded, too, if he believes socialist policies will achieve what he apparently hopes.
32 posted on
06/01/2009 10:20:12 PM PDT by
Post Toasties
(Conservatives allow the guilty to be executed but Lefties insist that the innocent be executed.)
To: fight_truth_decay
I’m sure it does fill him with joy.
Michigan is a liberal paradise: they had high unemployment during the boom years. :)
35 posted on
06/01/2009 10:38:46 PM PDT by
Tzimisce
(http://groups.myspace.com/nailthemessiah)
To: fight_truth_decay
I hope the exact opposite occurs than what the slob envisions!
36 posted on
06/01/2009 10:39:14 PM PDT by
dalereed
To: fight_truth_decay
Who among us wants $50 billion of our tax dollars thrown down the rat hole of still trying to save GM?, wrote MooreNo, instead let's throw away $50 billion building bullet trains to nowhere. Moore must be living a wet dream these days - every day he wakes up we are closer and closer to becoming Cuba.
37 posted on
06/02/2009 12:01:52 AM PDT by
Rummyfan
(Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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