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The high speed rail amendment in Florida was killed by overwhemling majority
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[quote]QUOTE: n_stephenson Posted: Today, 08:39:05 <br />Unfortunately high speed rail probably won't become popular until Americans start paying the same gas prices as the rest of the world. I don't know about you, but if I had to pay $5 a gallon for gas, I'd be asking lots of questions about how to get an interurban started up again. People need to start thinking about the future, I mean there's only so much oil left. Even if we start drilling the oil out of the shale in the Green River valley and sucking up every last drop it's still going to run out eventually. As a nation we need to put more of our money towards technological innovations instead of policing the world.[/quote] <br /> <br />And what's bad is that it won't be until the point that people are paying that much for gas that they'll want it, and then it will take a good 20 years for studies, planning, building/upgrades, rolling stock, etc. etc. for everything to get done. It's ashame things like this can't get a good start now so that these services will be there when America is really going to need them. Otherwise it'll be too late.
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