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To: tejek who wrote (579915)	8/7/2010 5:40:39 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1583639

You don't think riding the rails tells you anything about the condition of those rails. Apparently not. We have what is probably the best freight rail system in the world (as measured by cost and productivity) and you're pretending its in terrible shape. So when you worked for an oil company, you believed you could get your job accomplished by simply sitting in your office. BTW how did that approach work out for you? I do work for an oil company and I do all my work sitting in offices. Its worked out okay for me. Its been years since I've been out on sites and when I was at that level I was in the mining end of the business. You need to do more reading on the subject.....at least as much as I have. Uh, I'm the one who posted from the Economist on this. What have you read that tells you the Economist was a piece of crap? Dude, improving rail systems may be new to you but its hardly a new venture for the rest of the world. Like the Economist said, our freight rail system is far better than theirs. Passenger rail may not be but frankly passenger rail hasn't been that important since the auto and aircraft industries began. trust me, private enterprise was not the lead entity in most of those countries. What great benefit do those countries have for having high speed rail systems? And would their systems be of benefit to us given the differences in our countries? How do we know the high speed rail they have isn't an extravagance that is of little economic benefit?