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<P mce_keep="true">[quote user="schlimm"][quote user="Bucyrus"] <P>[quote user="Victrola1"] </P> <P>"The governors said recycled materials would be used in the construction of the train, locally-grown produce served in train dining cars, and recyclable and biodegradable containers used in food service on the train."</P> <P><A title="http://gazetteonline.com/local-news/2010/08/06/iowa-illinois-submit-high-speed-rail-application CTRL + Click to follow link" href="http://gazetteonline.com/local-news/2010/08/06/iowa-illinois-submit-high-speed-rail-application">http://gazetteonline.com/local-news/2010/08/06/iowa-illinois-submit-high-speed-rail-application</A><BR><BR>Biodegradable food containers holding local sweet corn justifies a passenger train? At what point does pandering become absurdity?<BR>[/quote]</P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=verdana,geneva>Going back to the original post and getting back on topic, I would like to know the purposes of using “new green products and practices,” as the governors of Iowa and Illinois said would be done with the new train service.<SPAN> </SPAN>Surely <U>new green products and practices</U> has a purpose or it would not be integrated into a rail project.<SPAN> </SPAN>What is its purpose? </FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT face=verdana,geneva size=2></FONT></SPAN> </P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT face=verdana,geneva><FONT size=2>For instance, what is the advantage of serving locally produced food and using recycled materials to construct a train?<SPAN> </SPAN>Does this reduce the cost?<SPAN> </SPAN>If it is cheaper to build a train out of recycled materials, why haven’t they done it that way all along?<SPAN> </SPAN><SPAN> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>[/quote]<BR> <P>1. Going Green is actually pretty popular and shouldn't be seen as objectionable.</P> <P>2. Serving locally-grown produce is common in better restaurants. It isn't a political statement.</P> <P>3. Lots of steel has been recycled for years, long before the term recycling was used. </P> <P>4. No one claimed they were building a train to use biodegradable products, etc. No one is pandering. So why not use all of the above? <BR></P> <P>[/quote]</P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=verdana,geneva>I am not offering any opinion as to whether or not going green is objectionable.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am only asking what the point of it is.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I know a lot of people say they are going green by following a set of beliefs and practices.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The governors of Iowa and Illinois refer to it as “new green products and practices.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So I assume that going green is something new and using recycled materials in the construction of a train does not simply refer to the recycled aspect of steel-making, as you mention.</FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT face=verdana,geneva size=2></FONT></SPAN> </P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT face=verdana,geneva size=2>I can understand that serving certain local produce might offer some type of price/availability advantage at times.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But why should serving locally grown produce be an overarching objective in and of itself?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What is the advantage?</FONT></SPAN></P>
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