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Gulf Oil Spill Fuels Push for High-speed Rail in Wisconsin
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| June 16, 2010
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Posted on 06/16/2010 2:08:27 PM PDT by Willie Green
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It's BP's fault.
To: Willie Green
They worried that the spill will be coming ashore in Wisconsin?
SAVE THE CHEESE!
To: Willie Green
Wisconsin? Yeah that’s the first place I think of to optimize high speed rail.
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posted on
06/16/2010 2:11:44 PM PDT
by
Drango
(A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
To: a fool in paradise
All the marxists are running to collect a piece of the pie.
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posted on
06/16/2010 2:12:29 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: Willie Green
WISPIRG says high-speed rail is 23-percent more fuel efficient than flying and up to 50-percent more fuel efficient than driving.
Wow. Those numbers are underwhelming. WHen I see weasel words like "UP TO" than I know that it will be significantly less. UP TO means full trains in each direction, every ride. Ain't gonna happen.
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posted on
06/16/2010 2:13:15 PM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics)
To: Willie Green
is more proof we need to break away from our dependency on oil. Do these morons not realize that trains run on diesel fuel which is made from oil? How frigging stupid are these choo-choo people?
Unless of course they're talking about those magical, mythical high speed trains that run on Unicorn farts....
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posted on
06/16/2010 2:13:16 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
To: Willie Green
Because BART is such a
rousing success.
The sole purpose of Metropolitan Transportation Districts is to provide affirmative-actioned "people of color" a means of stealing as much public dollars as they can stuff into their pockets.
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posted on
06/16/2010 2:14:32 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law." -- Aristotle)
To: Willie Green
The consumer group made up primarily of college students and researchers That tells you all you need to know about them.
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posted on
06/16/2010 2:14:33 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
To: Willie Green
What, power your high-speed rail with wind power?
To: Willie Green
"WISPIRG is calling on Congress to dedicate funding to passenger rail in the next six-year federal transportation bill which will be taken up next year, so we can build the system Wisconsin needs and our country deserves," the group's Sarah Seibold said. I have an idea Sarah. Why don't you raise your own capital, build yourself a railroad, sell tickets and send the government a bunch of money in taxes like the rest of us commuters do?
Trains are SO much more efficient, you should be able to pay more taxes than drivers pay and still make a tidy little bundle of money for yourself.
To: Drango
The great light rail boondoggle... Build a light rail 12 miles long that carries 5,000 or 6,000 passengers per day, and costs $1 billion to build and runs an operating budget deficit of $100’s of millions per year. While an adjacent highway carries 50,000 people per day at a small fraction of the cost. Utopia lives on...
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posted on
06/16/2010 2:16:14 PM PDT
by
RDasher
("El Nino is climate, La Nina is weather")
To: Lurker
I also know their Grandchildren will come visit them in gasoline powered cars.
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posted on
06/16/2010 2:16:18 PM PDT
by
norraad
("What light!">Blues Brothers)
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To: Dr. Sivana
Wow. Those numbers are underwhelming. WHen I see weasel words like "UP TO" than I know that it will be significantly less. UP TO means full trains in each direction, every ride. Ain't gonna happen.
...and the "driving" comparison assumes everyone rides solo in their H2 or Escalade, at either 5 or 95 mph.
Isn't LibMath fun?!?
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posted on
06/16/2010 2:17:14 PM PDT
by
Zeppelin
(Keep on FReepin' on...)
To: Willie Green
It’s like a magical oil spill that can do anything!
WORSHIP THE OIL SPILL!
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posted on
06/16/2010 2:17:18 PM PDT
by
subterfuge
(BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
To: Willie Green
9,000 permanent UNION jobs with no reason to make profits and huge drains on tax dollars for fat, bloated salaries, benefits and pensions.
Just like the BART or MUNI a-wipes here in the Bay Area...over budget and the only thing they will cut is services...the $150K fat salaried jackasses have the unions to hold the taxpayers hostage.
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posted on
06/16/2010 2:20:42 PM PDT
by
wac3rd
(Gulf oil spews...Obama sues.)
To: Lurker
Hope and Chaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaange!
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posted on
06/16/2010 2:21:16 PM PDT
by
wac3rd
(Gulf oil spews...Obama sues.)
To: wac3rd
9,000 permanent UNION jobs with no reason to make profits and huge drains on tax dollars for fat, bloated salaries, benefits and pensions.
wac3rd makes willie sad.
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posted on
06/16/2010 2:22:34 PM PDT
by
ZX12R
(IMPEACH OBAMA NOW!)
To: Willie Green
"Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste"
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posted on
06/16/2010 2:23:51 PM PDT
by
so_real
( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
To: E. Pluribus Unum
The sole purpose of Metropolitan Transportation Districts is to provide affirmative-actioned “people of color” a means of stealing as much public dollars as they can stuff into their pockets.
Local news here covered a Pittsburgh bus driver who made $131,000 last year. (they exploit union rules to rack up tons of overtime). Funny TV story, interviewing a young black girl on her way to a fast food job, explaining that this is why the fares are going up. She was flummoxed.
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