“The pair warned Obama to seek more private investments in the project...”
There is not going to be private investment. Private investors are not that dumb. They know that it is IMPOSSIBLE to compete against private vehicle travel. That is even he case in Europe - where, despite their vaulted train system, try driving the motorways and look who’s there - regular people, just going on holiday (as they call it).
People are not going to take the train from Phili to Pittsburgh when it requires 9 hours (door to door), versus 5 hours to drive it. Not going to happen. And it WILL require 9 hours, because, by the time the environmentalists get done with things, the tracks will not be anywhere near straight and the idea of the train being high speed would have been dispensed with years earlier. Even airplanes have a difficult time competing against private travel, until you at least cross the 300 mile mark.
This kind of stuff, that has NO ECONOMIC JUSTIFICATION, just infuriates me, and really makes me wish that we would have our financial meltdown sooner, rather than later, just to put a stop to this.
pssst hey, BRAIN BOYEZ....if you want to build something..
BUILD OIL REFINERIES AND NUKCLEAR PLANTS...and damn quick..!
Sounds just like the stem cell nonsense. Private embryonic stem cell research was not outlawed--but the PRIVATE SECTOR did not want to invest. Why? The technology favored adult stem cell research. So here come the liberals: Hussein wants GOVERNMENT TO PAY FOR IT.