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[quote user="jeaton"][quote user="futuremodal"][quote user="Murphy Siding"][quote user="futuremodal"] <P>It means what it says, that a railroad is a monopoly for what it hauls best</P> <P>[/quote] </P> <P> And a truck is a monopoly for what it hauls best?......and a pipeline?.....and a barge?........and an alen spacecraft?.......[alien] I think you just took another trip to the definition outlet mall. Just because a definition is on sale, doesn't mean it's a good one.</P> <P>[/quote]</P> <P>Horshack, go write 100 times on the blackboard "Trucks and barges have intramodal competition" so you can remember what we've already studied last year. When you've done that, you can return to the discussion.</P> <P>[/quote]</P> <P>FM Nice diversion of the point. You are saying that there are certain things that a mode "does best" and if there is only a single carrier of that mode in a particular market, then there is a monopoly. Your notion that there is no competition between modes is really dumb and as long as you persist with the idea that freight is "inherently" truck freight or rail freight or pipeline freight or whatever, I guess you are going to be stuck in dumb.</P> <P>[/quote]</P> <P>Jay,</P> <P>If the best you can do is flame, then that shows you have no understanding of the issues. I'll tell you one more time - it's product differentiation. Until you can show me that you at least grasp an elementary understanding of how product differentiation dictates modal preferences, please keep your typical liberal insult barrage to yourself.</P>
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