[ReaganGirl]

LOL - I agree. MAF said that one of the eco- terrorists actually said that the government should build trains to get people around and do away with cars.

Where I come from we would call that "stinkin thinkin"

[Lazamataz]

LOL - I agree. MAF said that one of the eco- terrorists actually said that the government should build trains......

................to load people onto box-cars for transportation to the liquidation camps.

[daviddennis]

It might be a matter of interest to them to know that the energy used to construct BART in San Francisco represents 525 YEARS of their projected energy savings through BART commuting versus the use of automobiles. I don't remember where I read it, but in view of what it takes to dig giant tunnels with smoke-belching drilling equipment and the like, I don't doubt that it's true.

I also don't think you would be able to build something like BART with the type of small-scale technology normally advocated by the lefties. Building rail systems is quite remarkably industry-intensive, using any number of belching, hissing, fuel-guzzling monsters. The "small is beautiful" crowd doesn't seem to like that idea.

I don't think lefties pay much attention to the potential results of their proposals. They just hate what exists now, without trying to figure out what would actually work better.

I can't blame them for hating what exists now. Heck, I hate the fact that I can't afford to move to Via Lido Nord in Newport Beach (typical house price: $4,000,000). But that doesn't mean that by shaking up society I'd be any better off. The only way I become better off is by doing something that, in time, becomes worth $4,000,000. The fact that I have that opportunity is the great advantage of capitalism.

I must flag this for particular attention:

They were of course denied access and were even told by the lefties that "they had scripted the trial and were not letting anyone deviate from the script.

What good is a mock trial if it goes entirely by script? Not much, I say.

For a group of people who say they support dissent, they sure are close-minded - especially, of course, when outnumbered.

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[rwfromkansas]

As if the trains would not cause pollution either....and do terrible damage to our economy by destroying tourist freedom of movement. Boy, those people sure use brains, don't they.