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up829 - For some captive shippers, it is true that half the delivered cost of a product is the transportation. If they are ag shippers, a wood products plant, or a coal fired power plant, etc. then they can't just pack up and move closer to their market. Murphy - Didn't you just confirm that importers are NOT captive to any rail shipper? That's the whole gist of my disagreement with Mark (aside from his theoretical construct), importers already get competitive rail rates, so any nationwide reduction in U.S. rail rates due to OA or reregulation would not make it any more condusive to import, the import rail rates are already as low as they probably will go. However, if the U.S. rail rates are lowered via introduced competition, it will provide one major incentive for U.S. firms to stay stateside rather than pulling out. We're assuming of course that current active U.S. producers who are still here are here because the overseas siren song hits a bad chord or two for their particular situation. What we should be concerned about is if that siren song is then rewritten to their liking, and they are currently captive rail shippers, what ever is holding them back here may no longer exist, and off they go into the wild red yonder. And yes, if a man says something detrimental about OA in a forest and no one hears him, he is still wrong.
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