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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by daveklepper</i> <br /><br />If there is money in it, the capital will be found and the line built as an investment. <br /> <br />Like Powder River Basin <br /> <br />Some new tracks do get put down. Because there is a return on the investment. <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />A private investor's ROI goals and the needs of a nation to enhance it's economic growth and trade position with the rest of the world are diametrically opposed in the global sense. Other nations spend public money for expanding rail capacity, and their economic and trade positions are improved. If we depend on private sector funding for infrastructure, we are in trouble. <br /> <br />The U.S. desperately needs to enhance it's internal export infrastructure to improve it's trade position in the world. Impementing a federally supported open access rail policy in a form that meets this goal can only result in positives. <br /> <br />BTW, given DM&E's problems in accessing PRB, can we really say that there are private sector opportunities left for new territorial rail expansion in this day and age?
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