I dont exactly know the percentage,and couldnt seem to find it,but lots of truck companies are owned by railroads.Railroads are an idea,but its an idea that wont work.This is not the 50s any more.Lots of tracks have been torn out,and railroads have not really kept up with the times.It would cost a fortune to put all the freight on the railroad and take years to do it.First you need to get the government out of it so you can fix it. Trains dont haul food anymore,or very little.It takes them too long to go from where the food is,California,Texas,Florida to everywhere else.Railroads as they exist now can hardly keep up with the freight they haul.If railroads had to stop at just the places they did in the 50s we would have lots of hungry people.It doesnt matter what fuel costs,if you want to eat,its going to come to you by truck for many years from now even if they try and put it on rails.Also that warehouse on wheels to Wal-Mart and other places.If you dont have trucks how long will it take the railroad to get around to hauling your stuff?Probly a couple of months,maybe more.Next,think shipping is high priced now?Wait until it gets to where the government sponsored,slow,corrupt,and overworked railroad has to do it.Better give up on the railroad saving you,thats not going to happen.There will always be trucks,and they will always be faster than the railroad. Now having said all of that,there are things that can go on trains and get some trucks off the road.Thats going to happen,and its going to take lots of trucks that we need off the road too. I dont see why the sky is supposedly falling because China has cars?China has oil and ethanol too,so does India.Not enough like everybody that has cars,but they have some.The thing is,big oil is going to get a reputation,worse than what they have now.We have lots of coal and the infrastructure is here for electricity.Looks like we might jump to electric cars.Maybe we would have already done this if big oil had been honest about its intentions.I dont think anybodys going to believe anything they say from now on.Then electric cars will run on Chinas roads as good as they do here.From now on I am going to study how to build a still and big oil can blow after I get it built.
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