[Willie Green]

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.

[SoCal Pubbie]

After WWII, Europe couldn't afford anything, including rebuilding their rail system. U.S aid in the form of the Marshall Plan and other funding did the trick. Furthermore, your post did nothing to address my questions to the author, which had to do with the"success" of high speed rail there, which was not built until 1965.