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[quote user="RRKen"] <blockquote> <div><img src="/trccs/Themes/trc/images/icon-quote.gif" /> Bucyrus:</div> <div></div> No, that will be public sector financed if the private sector can lay enough golden eggs.  It is the public sector that is promoting it.  It probably could happen gradually, over time as a purely market driven objective, but the public sector wants it now, and their motive is primarily to benefit the greater good of society by reducing CO2 emissions.  They will also need to electrify all the freight railroads and produce the power from renewable sources in order to close the loop on this CO2 reducing objective.  From reading the Cargo Beamer article, I see that there is a fair amount of this same CO2 reducing objective in their rationale, in addition to simply reducing highway gridlock.      <div style="clear:both;"></div>   </blockquote> Last I looked,  every segment of Government, from Federal to State, County, Municipal, and Township, is short of money.    If you thought this theory was high risk for private companies,  Government should be the last entity to experiment with it.     I am not going to debate why we must reduce CO².   Needless to say the Europeans have made this a religion.   If you like that kind of thinking, move there!    Reducing congestion on our roads is a noble effort,   but forcing the public to pay for it, when they did not cause it, just aint right. I believe Al Kalmbach was right in 1944.   We are a nation without a transportation policy.   We are also a nation who allows people to make a profit  using taxpayers wages,  but with no return on that investment  back to the tax payers (but they keep profit).    Not only that, but to allow other subsidized modes to compete with a private enterprise, which was not.  That was not right then, and it is not right today. Again, if private enterprise is not willing to invest,  it must be because it is a dog.   Don't be salivating over what is in my wallet  to pay for this theory.  <div style="clear:both;"></div> [/quote] Oh I agree with you 100% on all of that.  I don’t believe CO2 is a problem.  I don’t believe that manmade CO2 is changing the climate.  But this was the point I was making: Perhaps more radical concepts such as Cargo Beamer are needed to sweep truck traffic off of the highways in Europe, and we don’t need it here because we don’t have that highway traffic problem here.  However, our FRA does happen to want to sweep truck traffic off of our highways on a massive scale that perhaps will justify more radical concepts for truck/rail operations here.  Unlike the European objective of getting trucks off of highways for capacity issues, however, the FRA wants to get trucks off of our highways to reduce CO2 emissions. When I mentioned that the FRA’s objective was to get 80% of long haul trucking off of our highways and onto rail, you asked me who would pay for that.  And I said that it would be the public sector if the private sector can lay enough golden eggs. It would, of course be a public sector endeavor, because there is no private sector market for getting rid of CO2.  But don’t misunderstand me.  I am not advocating this.  This would be half way to nationalizing our railroads.  And I agree with you about the shortage of funds.  I think the public sector is becoming so greedy that it is killing the golden goose of the private sector.  So, I don’t think this should happen.
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