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<P mce_keep="true">[quote user="PNWRMNM"] <P>Travelling engineer,</P> <P>You are correct in that you did not claim there was enough demand to support profitable passenger trains. My point was and is that has been the case for well over 50 years. We seem to be agreed that long distance passenger trains can not and will not generate a profit.</P> <P>Given that there is not suffficient demand for self supporting passenger trains you, and any other passenger train advocates, have to argue for taking money out of other people's pockets to support the tiny minority who ride the trains for one reason or another. That is income redistribution, take from someone and give it to someone else. There is no mandate for income redistribution in the US constitution.</P> <P>[/quote]</P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=verdana,geneva>Mac, </FONT></P><FONT face=verdana,geneva> <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></FONT> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=verdana,geneva>I agree with your position that there is not sufficient demand for self-supporting passenger trains.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>However, according to my reading of the various HSR mission statements, the objective is not to address demand sufficient to make self-supporting passenger trains.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The objective is to reduce CO2 emissions to prevent climate change by getting travelers out of their cars and out of airplanes, and onto passenger trains.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT face=verdana,geneva size=2></FONT></SPAN> </P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT face=verdana,geneva><FONT size=2>If it were only about satisfying the demand for train travel by a limited number of train travel aficionados, then building HSR with public money would indeed be grossly redistributionist.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But the proponents of HSR intend for us all to be riding the trains as an obligation to saving the planet.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So, in their mind, there is nothing redistributionist about it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In their minds, it is simply a matter of serving the greater good of society just like national defense.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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