Perry with his continuing relentfull push for the Spanish owned TTC and now the French with HSR. Just damn them.
PS - I thought the Spanish were in depression with the Frenchies not far behind?
The Spanish are in seriously bad shape because of Zapatero’s “green jobs” iniative, which closed a lot of ordinary production in Spain but never produced anything else (simply because it’s impossible...”green jobs” means “no jobs” in the real world, because nothing is produced).
So I’m not surprised their few remaining companies are out seeking contracts.
That said, I love rail travel and have no objection to it, but I betcha that the America-hating Obama wouldn’t encourage any domestic private industry involvement in this. His environmental units would find some way to destroy any such company.