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Why California’s bullet train should not stall (forget the billion$ - go green)
San Diego Union-Tribune ^
| 2/15/19
| ROBERT CRUICKSHANK
Posted on 02/19/2019 5:42:19 PM PST by Libloather
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Cruickshank is the founder of the California High Speed Rail Blog.
Say Cruickshank, just how much will tickets cost to ride on the bullet? Hmmmmm?
To: Libloather
“If we believe climate change is real, then we are obligated to do something about it, and not let cost concerns or bureaucratic issues become a justification for giving up and going home while the state and the planet burn.” This one loathsome incredibly stupid dolt.
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posted on
02/19/2019 5:45:15 PM PST
by
Fungi
To: Libloather
Why is it that the libs so love about trains? They are fanatic about them.
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posted on
02/19/2019 5:47:32 PM PST
by
Dutch Boy
To: Libloather
"
Say Cruickshank, just how much will tickets cost to ride on the bullet?"
If you have to ask you can't afford tickets and if you can't afford tickets they don't want you cluttering up their ride.
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posted on
02/19/2019 5:48:20 PM PST
by
Rashputin
(Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
To: Libloather
...If we believe climate change is real, then we are obligated to do something about it...Okay, here's your list...
- Never travel more than 50 miles from your birthplace in your entire life
- Heat your house to 50F in the winter
- Get rid of your air conditioning
- Sell your car. Walk everywhere
- Better yet, turn off the electricity to your house
- Do not consume anything delivered to any store by truck or rail or plane
- Consume only what you grow in your backyard
Building a passenger train will do ZERO for the environment because nobody will use it.
To: Libloather
Mr Cruickshank is spitting in the wind. CA’s high-speed rail is dead. No amount of op-ed pieces is going to change that fact.
To: Dutch Boy
They love trains because they were invented in the 1830s.
They hate walls because the Chinese invented a big one to keep invaders out in 800 BC.
Got it?
To: Libloather
Bullet train? Bull Shi+ train.
To: Libloather
Everybody rides for free to Big Rock Candy Mountain
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posted on
02/19/2019 5:54:55 PM PST
by
digger48
To: Dutch Boy
"
Why is it that the libs so love about trains?"
It's like the Lost Generation bitching about how the US wasn't cosmopolitan like Europe. Trains are just so European that they must have them.
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posted on
02/19/2019 5:55:01 PM PST
by
Rashputin
(Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
To: Rashputin
The first leg, the desert leg, won’t be done until 2023 if ever. The Pelosis’ have sucked all the money they can out of this disaster, so let’s move on. You will never build the SF to LA leg, the cost to buy the land will bankrupt the 50 States. Oh did I mention, CA is broke.
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posted on
02/19/2019 5:55:12 PM PST
by
Kozy
(new age haruspex; "Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.")
To: Fungi
and not let cost concerns or bureaucratic issues become a justification for giving up"Just pay for it!" - another Dem idiot.
To: Libloather
“They proceeded to block any further federal funding for high-speed rail”
but but but the proponents always swear that it is completely privately funded!
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posted on
02/19/2019 5:58:33 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
To: 17th Miss Regt
Yeah. Crankshank is an idiot.
To: Libloather
Oh c’mon, you people have no vision.
When CA soon breaks in half and floats out into the Pacific; Bakersfield and Merced will become the new LA SF.
and
And then there can be the channel to West California! Everybody wins !!
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posted on
02/19/2019 6:06:55 PM PST
by
A strike
(I DEMAND my responsibilities!)
To: Libloather
Why would environmentalist want at giant train track headed toward Yosemite?
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posted on
02/19/2019 6:06:57 PM PST
by
samadams2000
(Get your houses in order.)
To: Libloather
Thanks for this. I don’t bother with the local SoCal papers anymore and I would have missed this gem. Best bit of the day. My face hurts from laughing.
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posted on
02/19/2019 6:13:18 PM PST
by
LucienCA13
(sorry if you are microaggrieved)
To: Libloather
If it was completed, how long would it take and how much would it cost to get from LA to Frisco?
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posted on
02/19/2019 6:15:29 PM PST
by
umgud
To: Dutch Boy
Why is it that the libs so love about trains? Because they believe they are demigods that can wave their magic wand and bestow goodness on us mere mortals.
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posted on
02/19/2019 6:22:44 PM PST
by
P.O.E.
(Pray for America)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Just as I keep hitting Leftists with:
Have they personally given up fossil fuels? It’s doable. They haven’t. They’re hypocrites.
I’ve done more about climate change than most concerned about it. Run home & office partly on solar, had an EV. Delightful as hobby, motivating for self-sufficiency, also familiar with the limits - which snowflakes won’t seriously live with.
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posted on
02/19/2019 6:23:41 PM PST
by
ctdonath2
(The Red Queen wasn't kidding.)
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