I wonder if the author can tell us:
A. The price of gas in Europe.
B. The tolls charged to travel a similar route s the trains.
C. How much tax payer money it takes to keep the trains running every year.
D. About how the Feds pulled the mail contracts around 1964 and made passenger trains in the U.S. unprofitable.
I wonder if the author can tell us:
A. The price of gas in Europe.
After WWII, when Europe was rebuilding their transportation infrastructure, they could not afford to import Oil or gasoline. So instead, they chose to rebuild and modernize their passenger rail system and discourage gasoline imports by imposing a higher tax.
We would be smart if we did the same.
Our "low" gasoline prices for imported oil are actually subsidized with the American blood that's shed defending the OPEC sheiks in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia from the crazy mullahs in Iran.
We'd be better off modernizing our own passenger rail system, and then telling the OPECkers that they should defend themSELVES from the Iranians.