On Apr 5, 2007, at 1:53 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote:
> It seems to me Jordan is arguing that it's geography that makes the
> U.S. a plane and car/truck country.
If you're travelling from one end to the other, sure, but there's lots of travel like Miami-Atlanta, NY-DC, Boston-Portland (ME, not OR), SF-Seattle, Milwaukee-Chicago, Houston-Dallas, etc., that would be perfect for high-speed trains. If carbon were priced properly, plane travel would not be so cheap (esp with a surcharge for the water vapor problem Gar mentioned), filling the tank on the Escalade would get a lot more expensive, and there'd be lots of demand for high-speed trains.
Doug