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Which also means that THEY. ARE. NEVER. GONNA. HAPPEN. If the state is not willing to invest in those railways, it won't spend even more on these fruitcake projects.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Wed Dec 2nd, 2009 at 03:20:18 PM EST
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Never underestimate the willingness of politicians to pander to car drivers. If those scrubbers can provide a fig leaf for not encouraging people to switch from cars to trains, the minor matter of a few orders of magnitude higher cost won't matter.

Of course, as long as they are viewed simply as an excuse for not taking serious action (rather than as a minor part of a larger overall campaign), they will never be constructed in any meaningful quantity. Which is almost as "good."

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Wed Dec 2nd, 2009 at 03:44:13 PM EST
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