Rolling squid wrote:Brogavia wrote:Rolling squid wrote:greed and death wrote:Rolling squid wrote:About time. Maybe that will force some changes, force us to actually build a decent nation-wide public transport network, as well as reviving the inner city trains.
You forget this is the US we are talking about.
When faced with a 7 dollar a gallon tax, The solution will be violence not, wait for next election.
True. So implement a gradual tax, say fifty cents/gallon a year, and use the revenues to build a national high speed rail system. Provide categorical grants to cities so they can build city-suburb rail systems. The point is, we as a country need to be weaned off oil and onto public transportation, and the only way I can see that happening is through higher fuel costs.
You honestly don't get how big our country is do you? Public transit does not work outside of densely populate areas. Ever.
No, I get it. But if we can crisscross it with highways, we can do the same with rail systems.
The difference is I can drive on a small dirt road to a paved road. Then drive on the paved road to a county.
I can then take the main road to the state highway and the state highway to the interstate.
We can not replace the county road, the paved road or the dirt road with rail in anything resembling a cost efficient manner.