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To: LindyBill who wrote (473822)2/24/2012 11:55:28 PM
From: ManyMoose7 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) of 793927
 
I made this very point in a book review I did on Amazon.com last year:

Excerpt: amazon.com

You environmentalists, you haters of Big Oil, you walkers up the Kim Williams Trail who long for a Second Generation Volt or Leaf or some other completely electric car, listen up!

Many of you probably know that the wonderful Kim Williams Trail is a reclaimed railroad grade. How many of you know that the train snaking along that grade to take my grandfather to the VA hospital after the war was the Milwaukee Road, an ELECTRIC railroad, all the way to Harlowton? Unlike the Northern Pacific Rail Road that huffed and puffed black coal smoke from old Engine 1356, the Milwaukee Road was clean. It sucked energy off a line suspended over the tracks, and I bet it hauled more people and freight than all the Volts and Leafs that will ever be. Electric transportation is NOT a new idea.

The Milwaukee Road was electric, you see. Like the Volts and Leafs that suck up a big government subsidy so your conscience will be clear as a Petroleum Free World.

Wrong! Be an environmentalist with common sense for God's sake, like Rick Bass. Know what the hell you are talking about.
The Milwaukee Road ran on coal. There were coal-fired generator plants along the route, and they produced the electricity that drove the trains down the line. Just like old Engine 1356, they burned coal. The only difference was WHERE the smoke stack blew, not how much carbon reached the atmosphere.

Your government-subsidized Volts and Leafs are no different.
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