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[quote user="Murphy Siding"]Yes-any or all of  American rail lines *could* be electrified.  Will American taxpayer be willing to spend the Gazillion dollars required to do it?  I don't think so.    If it made economic sense for private industry to do it, it would have already been done. [/quote]   The reason for private industry to electrify has always been different than the reason the taxpayers might be asked to do it now.   The American taxpayers are going to cough up a Gazillion dollars for the imminent climate legislation.  Several U.S. rail execs and experts have commented that this legislation may force them to electrify as the cheaper alternative.  Minnesota taxpayers are soon going to cough up dollars for renewable energy mandate legislation that has already been passed.  U.S. taxpayers are going to cough up our “fair share” of a $10 billion joint contribution with other countries to hand over to China, so they can afford to clean up their CO2 emissions.
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