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MP173, Not knowing what it is your business is involved in, I can't relate a more specific answer. Is there a cost factor in your bidding process that negates the statistical likelyhood of your firm winning the contract? Is your firm a union shop having to bid against non union outfits? I can see the logic of your firm's action if the cost of bidding is itself an onerous expense or the statistical likelyhood of winning the contract is too low to make an offer. It sounds like your firm may have some internal constraints that prevents maximum flexibility from being exercised. Regarding you point on consumers having choices, don't forget that one of those choices can be to reduce or eliminate economic activity altogether. This in turn has a negative effect on the economy. If enough potential consumers of a good or service decline to participate in a particular sector, the effect on the economy can be akin to death by a thousand slices. Take your grain growers. If one or two decide to put their land into a conservation program rather than grow crops and deal with onerous transportation costs, that's no big deal. But if that action is taken by a few hundred farmers, then the effects on the local economy can be devastating. Get enough areas of the country in that fix, and pretty soon we got ourselves a full blown recession. It is my view that federal transportation officials are implicitly charged with taking pre-emptive action to prevent such eventualities from occuring. We have to ask ourselves how many inustrial investors have taken their projects out of the country rather than having to deal with captivity to one railroad? Granted, being a captive rail shipper is just one negative aspect that industrial investors have to deal with along with environmental regulations and overburdensome regulations. Then again, it only took that last straw to break the camel's back.
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