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Yet another guest post from the thoughtful BruceMcF laying out how a Steel Interstate program provides one of the most sensible national policy paths forward to address our intertwined economic, energy, and environmental challenges … and opportunities.
(Right: Liberty Line) The Steel Interstate proposal is an effort to build Rapid Electric Freight Rail Tollways across the country [...]

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Yet another guest post from the thoughtful BruceMcF.
I’ve written several times about the direct potential of the Steel Interstate project to cut our oil imports by 10% by getting long haul freight trucking off the road. It would at the same time relieve the crushing burden imposed by long haul trucking on our over-worked, under-maintained [...]

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Yet another guest post from the thoughtful BruceMcF.
We can tell that an energy policy is not aimed at ending our nation’s oil addiction in time when the speech presenting it follows up:
The United States of America cannot afford to bet our long-term prosperity, our long-term security on a resource that will eventually run out, and [...]

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Yet another valuable guest post from BruceMcF, whose thoughts re rails valuable role in fostering a robust, prosperous, climate-friendly future for America merit attention.
Way back before the Super Bowl, the White House had a series of exciting announcements, covered at The Transport Politic under the heading The White House Stakes Its Political Capital on a [...]

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BruceMcF is a thinker re rail transportation who merits heeding … in this guest post, he looks at Amtrak’s value as it faces the budgetary axe threat from the Republican Study Committee.
The Republicans have won one of the established political Power Positions in American Politics, and so they propose to eliminate funding for Amtrak:
The Bush [...]

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Let me give Alan Drake one of the highest compliments that I know of: he makes me think.
I got to know Alan due to some pretty acerbic criticism from him about the viability of aspects of the 2006 Energize America plan. He (rightfully) argued that it gave rail (especially electrified rail) short shrift [...]

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Another guest post from the extremely thoughtful and insightful BruceMcF. Bruce’s thoughts, writ large, about transport policy and, more specifically, electrified rail merit attention and action.

Burning the Midnight Oil for Living Energy Independence
This last week, I have been staring at The Transport Politic post, Republican Wave Could Spell Trouble for High-Speed [...]

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Another guest post from the extremely thoughtful and insightful BruceMcF. Bruce’s thoughts, writ large, about transport policy and, more specifically, electrified rail merit attention and action.
If we reduce our oil consumption by 5% a year over each of the next twenty years, that allows use to be free of our oil addiction if [...]

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This is another guest post from BruceMcF, whose ideas on transportation (mainly, but not solely rail) merit heeding. See Burning the Midnight Oil.
Well how the frack d’ya like me now?
I’m not going to say “toldya so”, since many who will be reading this diary said much the same during the “Drill, Baby, Drill” [...]

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