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[quote user="nanaimo73"] FM-There would be less risk to the taxpayers if the $2 billion loan went to UP and BNSF to be used for increasing their capacity for moving PRB coal, perhaps including the Tongue River Railroad.Is your main concern moving the coal, or competition for BNSF ? [/quote]Well, DM&E applied for the $2b loan, not UP nor BNSF.  I expect that if the Duopoly twins were to apply for such a loan, they'd get it also.The problem as I see it is in the way UP and BNSF would have spent the money, contrasted with how DM&E plans to spend the money.  As you know, I am a critic of consolidating new capacity into a single corridor for various reasons.  I favor dispersed capacity, and the DM&E plan fits into that concept rather nicely.Secondly, there is the expectation of a public good in return for public funds.  I can't see how doing nothing more than fattening up the already obese corporations known as UP and BNSF respectively serves any public good.  If anything, such a mis-use of funds would amount to a negative public effect, given the monopolistic tendencies of those two.  The DM&E plan, being a brand new dispersed and competitive line, does fit the public good criteria.
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