Railways and Economic Development

William S. Lear rael at dejanews.com
Thu May 7 13:57:55 PDT 1998


On Thu, May 7, 1998 at 15:21:04 (-0500) Yoshie Furuhashi writes:
>Bill wrote:
>>I thought the recent spectacular freight problems were in the non-auto
>>transportation sector (railway; viz the recent transportation foul-ups
>>after Union Pacific's bumpy 1996 takeover of Southern Pacific).
>
>Yes, that's what I was talking about.

I'm a little confused, then. Why did you say "auto-centered transportation policy may be causing a problem for industries", when the problem above is clearly not due to "auto-centered transportation policy"? When you say "that's what I was talking about", do you mean, "Yes, of course, bonehead, didn't you read what I wrote?", or do you mean, "Yes, that's what I really should have said."? If the latter, then I assume you would agree that your evidence showing "a problem for industries as well" has evaporated. Do you really think, if you did mean the latter, that there is evidence that auto-centered policy causes any real harm to industry?

Bill



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