>On 2019-11-23, met@ph.or  wrote:   
   >> Imagine the groupthink/grouprationalizing that went into the american rail   
   assoc.   
   >> deciding to join the climate denialist club.  Ironically, a rational   
   response   
   >> to climate change and a future with more expensive energy in general would   
   >> mean a return to passenger rail.   
   >   
   >Passenger rail is presently an irrelevance, verging on inconvenience,   
   >in the USA.  Freight is everything. Americans drive if they can, fly if   
   >they can't; rail doesn't even enter into the equation.   
      
   Yup, though it does seem that Amtrak has synced their schedules up a bit   
   recently.  I checked on what would be entailed for a Denver to Baltimore trip   
   recently and it wasn't terrible with respect to layovers (2, Chicago and DC).   
   Price was comparable to flying but of course it takes 36 hours instead of 4.   
      
   If the fracking revolution turns out to have been merely a 10 year reprieve   
   from peak oil as many are saying then we soon be riding more trains soon.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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