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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by mudchicken Nothing here convinces me to even contemplate changing my opinion that the open access people are wearing blinders ( and borderline insane) as well as the fact that the Ag and Power people are still just looking for a way to hide their ineptitude and poor business practice. Reality says Green and Burns have already lost. I don't want to be in the shoes of a track maintenance official if they ever got their way. (1960's revisited) [/quote] Not just Ag and Power people, but also domestic manufacturers/industrys e.g. just about everyone in the USA involved in providing home-grown value-added output for domestic consumption and/or export, in other words the "meat and potatos" of the US economy (including the remaining members of the AFL-CIO) are being screwed by monopolist railroad policy. It's amazing that such a large segment of the economy is "inept" while the railroads (an infinately miniscule segment of the economy) are hosting Mensa conventions in their union halls. If indeed U.S. producers are engaged in poor business practices, I guess the worst decision of all is to even try to build up a value-added business within the borders of the country. Got news for you Mudchicken, it ain't that U.S. producers are inept or engaged in poor business practices, it's that the current closed access rail system is a major source of unnecessary inhibitance to their success potential. Railroads seem to go out of their way to screw U.S. producers, all the while rolling out the red carpet for Communist Chinese imports. Doesn't it amaze you that railroads are "reinvesting" those skinflint revenues from intermodal operations into making it even easier to import into this country, while at the same time ***-slapping the U.S. producers who provide the greater revenue margins? If it doesn't, they perhaps you're the one who's making time toward the border of insanity.
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