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<p>[quote user="schlimm"]</p> <p>[quote user="Sam1"]The most important questions are where does passenger rail make sense, what should it look like, and how will it be paid for. What truckers and airlines do is immaterial to answering the questions. Equally important, what they do in Japan or Europe is also immaterial to what we should do in the United States with respect to passenger rail. [/quote]</p> <p>The first statement as to the questions relevant makes good sense. The second and third statement are stated as though they were facts when they are your opinions and clearly quite subject to debate. [/quote]</p> <p>The second and third statements are my opinion. I did not intend them to be read otherwise.</p> <p>From time to time my company was faced with the problem of how should we meet the increased demand for electric energy. Should we increase generation, co-generation, transmission, distribution, conservation or some combination thereof? Whatever they were doing in North Carolina or Florida was immaterial to what we should do in north Texas. Our situation was unique; it call for framing the problem in terms of our service area and fitting an optimum solution to the problem.</p> <p>Co-generation is a good option for increasing power production in Texas because we have numerous petrochemical plants along the Gulf coast. These plants can generate more power than they use, therefore being able to sell their excess generation back into the grid. But co-generation is not a good option in many areas of the country because of a lack of industrial generation. </p> <p>The same idea applies to transportation solutions. We may get some ideas from what they do in Japan or Europe, but the solutions need to be tailored to our problem(s).</p>
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