Re: BEFORE Trying To Simply Hike the Fuel Tax . . .

BurtonUrny@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> On May 3, 5:40 pm, Day Brown <daybr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> HarryNadds wrote:
>>> What "more efficient" ways are you referring to? Rail? ****p? Carrier
>>> pidgeon? You think long haul trucks are part of the problem?? You
>>> willing to put thousands of truck drivers out of a job??
>> What would make more sense would be to nationalize the railroad right
of
>> way so that it would be owned and maintained by the government the same
>> as the highways, waterways, and air****ts.
>>
>> Then- permit investors to go into business with the running gear in an
>> open, and competitive free market rather than the regulated system the
>> massive rail cor****ations now have.
>>
>> Moreover, convert the rails to a new wide track design that could go
>> much faster and carry loads wider than a box car. In this case, they
>> could piggie back truck trailers or freighter containers side by side
on
>> flat cars, or use the flat cars to carry your car, at high speed, cross
>> country. You could drive on a flatcar at the station, with the driver's
>> side facing the front of the train, then drive off at your destination.
>>
>> then, you'd only need gas for local driving. There's also a design to
>> power the engine with coal, with high efficiency steam turbines and
>> highly effective emission control, which would reduce air pollution as
>> well as dramatically reduce the need for oil im****ts.
> 
> I knew it would finally pop up. Nationalized rail. Please list all the
> things the government does well.
Read more carefully. This is NOT nationalized rail. Only nationalized 
right of way like the interstate highways, waterways, and air****ts. Au 
contraire, the monopolistic grip the large and obsolete railroad 
companies have on the system would be broken.

You and/or a group of investors could invest in your own sidings & 
switchyards and engines & rolling stock, and run them from there on any 
railroad right of way the same as you can drive a truck fleet on any 
interstate.

Without having to front the money for the right of way, entrepreneurs 
with more realistic labor and management costs and free to innovate in 
terms of scheduling and rolling stock would generate *PROFITS*.