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If we still have 200 years worth of coal under U.S. soil, why would any rational railroad advocate want to "get away from fossil fuels"? What do you think is providing the main revenue source for Class I's? It's good ol' U.S. coal. The only other significant "domestic" source of power for the future is nuclear (please let go of all the talk of wind and solar power, even if those sources were maxed they would only amount to less than 10% of our total energy needs), and the railroads would go broke if all they had to haul in replacement of coal was uranium. <br /> <br />Coal must be the energy feedstock of choice for the next few centuries to meet future energy needs. Clean coal technologies such as gasification, circulating fluidized bed, or pulverized synthetic coal are not only the way to go for stationary power plants, the technologies are adaptable to small scale needs such as locomotion.
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