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[quote user="htgguy"] Electrifcation  has not happened because it does not provide an acceptable return on invested capital. Period. End of discussion. When it does provide an acceptable return on capital, it will happen. [/quote] I agree, but that is a different discussion than this one. I agree that electrification has not happened yet because it does not provide an acceptable return on invested capital.  However, this thread is based on the Trains article on electrification called WIRED UP by Scott Lothes, and in that article, author Lothes is advocating something entirely different than waiting for an acceptable return of capital. He champions immediate electrification as a nationalized or publicly funded transportation improvement for the greater social benefit of reducing greenhouse gases and improving other measures of “Sustainability.”      Advocate Lothes attempts to bolster his case by throwing in claims of substantial GDP increase and massive job creation as a result of such a socialized project, but offers no compelling evidence that these claims are anything more than attempts to sell his political agenda.
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