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[quote user="Murphy Siding"]      Fellas- can we please try to keep this on-topic (<A href="http://cs.trains.com/trccs/forums/t/156154.aspx">Energy Bill's Impact on the Railroads</A>), so it doesn't drift into troubled areas of politics?  Thanks [/quote] I am not sure where the line is drawn in this thread between politics and non-politics.  Nobody has named politicians or mentioned a political party.  However a person believes the bill will effect railroads depends on what that person believes about the greater, overall effect of the bill.  You cannot opine about how the bill will affect the rail industry without doing so through the prism of how you view the bill.  And there is great controversy about the bill with it being perceived by the public in generally two diametrically opposed ways: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> 1)      As proclaimed by the proponents, the bill will usher in a new era of economic prosperity by forcing the country away from the carbon energy based economy and into a clean, efficient, renewable energy based economy. <o:p></o:p> 2)      Contrary to the proclamation of the proponents, there is no market for the new renewable energy economy because of its higher cost, so it will require a public subsidy by taxpayers in order to create an artificial market.  The burden of paying this subsidy will severely depress the economy.  The promise that this will lead us to prosperity sounds like an economic perpetual motion machine. <o:p></o:p> Are these two viewpoints political expressions or are they merely expressions of economic and scientific analysis?   <o:p></o:p> Is one view a political expression and the other not?  If so, which is which?
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