rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1969The big problem here is the fact that rails are not more efficient. Given the number of railcars that are being spoken about, it would still require a high number of replacement technicians...
Nothing's free, but I'd rather be paying for American uranium-produced electricity than middle-eastern produced oil. As for the governenment getting involved in transportation, it already is - this would be government competing with government (rails competing with roads) and since rails are more efficient, costs would probably go down, in addition to being able to travel high speeds without getting chased by the cops.
When's the last time that one of the 20 or so computers in your car gave you trouble? Did someone "fix" it? Nope, they replaced it. Last time I had a computer problem was in a 1992 Mitsubishi Eclipse in about the year 1999 - it would have been a "replace it" job except I was able to fix it myself by installing some new capacitors. Such computers are extremely reliable, and notwithstanding the hideously-high profit that Detroit gets for its replacement parts, extremely cheap. Build these things in quanbreasty and your average "repair" is likely to be somebody being notified that one of the three redundant computers on a railcar is giving intermittantly "wrong" information as compared to the other two, and a tech goes down and pulls that computer, puts another one just like it in, does a diagonstic for loose wiring on the backplane, and the whole thing would take maybe five minutes.
I would feel like, "Pay me!". Other than that, the individual has, at present, way too much ability to interfere with public projects, which severely needs to be turned around so we can make some progress in this country. Otherwise, we're going to become a third world country and be in need of foreign aid rather than providing it.
You bet it does. Drastically reduced requirements for foreign oil coupled with drastically reduced highway rest tolls as peopls and cargo begin moving on rails controlled by computers that make vastly fewer mistakes than inattentive humans are something we should stive for.
Never is a long time, but it sure won't happen overnight, either.
Oh, great, another liberal fantasizer that thinks Afghanistan and Iraq are about the oil, rather than about us getting attacked. That won't elimnate the middle eastern oil problem, either. The oil will still be there.
rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1972Scott en Aztl‡n The really astounding thing is that you believe your argument is rational! All those railroad cars you see every day? Multiply those by about 100,000 percent if every...
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