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[quote user="Murphy Siding"][quote user="nanaimo73"] FM- From as far as I can tell, the $2.5 billion dollars from the government is for all of the trackwork. Do you know, or care, where the other $3.5 billion is coming from, or what it is for ? Is your main reason for supporting this project is that it would make America less reliant on middle-eastern oil ? And would that mean you would support government assistance for the planned $10 billion gas pipeline from Alaska ? [/quote]      I'm not futuremodal, but I did stay in a Holiday Inn last night....ba-da-bump!![:o)]       How would the DM&E project make America less reliant on Middle-eastern oil?      It appears that FM is "for" DM&E, because he is "against" BNSF. [/quote] Geez, don't any of you guys watch football or rake leaves on a fine fall Saturday? Dale, coal is not going to reduce our dependence on unfriendly sources of foriegn oil, at least not in the near term.  Maybe someday we'll have a coal to liquid fuels plant in every state, but for the near term the best coal can do is keep our electric grid up and running. (OT - the idea of coal reducing our dependence on foriegn oil is not as laughable as the idea of windmills reducing our dependence on foriegn oil.  Yet the latter is exactly what one US Senate candidate in the State of Washington is claiming.  For the past month, Washington Senator Maria Cantwell {Democrat, what else!} has been running ads in which she stands in front of a wind farm and states, "These windmills will reduce our dependence on foriegn oil".  [banghead]  Will someone please inform the Senator that windmills only produce electricity, not gasoline or diesel alternatives?) Murphy, your last sentence is a gross mischaracterization.  I am for the DM&E project because the US (1) needs more intramodal rail competition, and (2) needs more coal hauling rail capacity.  As for BNSF, it only appears that I oppose them for personal reasons - in reality I would be indifferent to BNSF one way or the other, except for the fact that they are part of The Problem with regards to being a government sanctioned monopoly which cross subsidizes imports at the expense of domestic rail shippers. In other words, as long as there is more non-BNSF and non-UP rail expansion out West, I am for it.  DM&E, KCS, MRL, or someone else, makes no difference to me.  But please, no more federal aid to the Big Two out West.  Just feeding these two morbidly obese gorrillas does nothing to address the aforementioned Problem.
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