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Mac, <br /> <br />As usual, you miss the point. Mark made his statement in the context of an open access thread, and only the cheap shot artists on this forum cannot or will not make the connection of Mark's statement with the topic title. The hypothesis is this: Open access will result in lower rail rates for captive shippers. If you can take this hypothesis and willingly give it a level of credibility, then the next logical step to discuss is how those lower rates for captive shippers will affect the national trade scene. Since there are no captive importers outside North America (since all avenues of importation are availed of multiple rail carrier options), then that means that for the most part only domestic and exporting producers are captive. If those captive producers are then gifted with lower rail rates due to OA, what possible reason would there be for any of them to pull up stakes and move their operation overseas, specifically reasons that they do not take advantage of now? If you would kindly come up with some potential examples of this happening, I'd be glad to take back my assertion that Mark's statement makes no sense in this context. Until then, to say my statement is at variance with economic theory is not credible.
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