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Very nice history, Big_Boy_4005. Look at our very society-there ain't a day in our lives we don't use oil. And where does all of this oil come from? The overwhelming majority is from the Middle East, which is also-SURPRISE! the place of so much turm"OIL" [:D] today. SO what does America do to protect our greasy investment? We send countries like Arabia and Arab Imrates several BILLION dollars altogether every year, although some of the countries we support also harbor terrorists. See something about to happen? (space for Big_Boy_4005) BOOM! around comes September 11, 2001-nothing else need be said about that horrible day. So, we go to war with Afganistan. But we do not get any oil from Afganistan. Instead, our president has his beady little eyes set on a crude oil paradiase, Iraq. But we can't trade with Iraq because of the likes of evil, sick Mr. Saddam. (another space for Big_Boy) What happens next? We invade Iraq on the grounds that they have WMDs. Now we find ourselves today with a mess every bit as volatile as the vast oil supply it contains. There will never be peace in the Mid-East. So where does that leave us today? A country that depends on Asia (and the Middle East) for our very survival, a defunct passenger train corporation, and gas guzzling semi trucks and SUVs everywhere. At least there never will be a "strike 3" for the railroads. Once in a book about the classic age of American railroading, I read a wonderful excerpt about steam locomotives and railroads in general: ". One thing I always loved about steam locomotives is that, unlike a motor vehicle that will just sit and stall if given too much to haul, a steam locomotive will spin her drivers underneath her helplessly until she can get the impossible mass moving...Come hell or high water, a steam locomotive will always get the job done, indeed hell and high water is what gives a steamer life." That was a little off topic, but it is such a wonderful, symbolic quote from the heyday of America's railroads, and nothing "happy" was being posted on this string.
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