[lbo-talk] Weimar on the Pacific

Eubulides prince.plumples at gmail.com
Fri May 23 20:41:43 PDT 2008


On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Jordan Hayes <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com> wrote:


> Dennis writes:
>
>> If California had a bullet train Chuck could come down for this:
>
> [ ... ]
>
>> Thursday, May 29, 2008
>> 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
>
> That's just silly. If California had a bullet train, he'd have to make
> it over to SF by 7am in order to be at UCLA before noon. On the other
> hand, he could make it to OAK by 9am and still be there in plenty of
> time. And it's about the same cost ($126 on Southwest as of right now)
> as a bullet train ride would be (if it existed). It's going to take
> three times as long to take the train as it presently does to fly
> (3hr/1hr).
>
> /jordan

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Or they could webcast it and he could sit on his couch, scratch his balls and have a gin and tonic while he watched it.

Ecological economics for $12 trillion please, Alex.....



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