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Originally Posted by darkangelism
the US is way to big, i mean in the city i live in its 45 miles in a straight line north south and just as wide, so a train system would need to be huge a multi billion dollar project. i dont think we need to use alt fuels for cars, if we can lower our use of oil for the main electric grid and use plug in hybrids, we could lower gas use by a huge amount
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Why not invest billions in a public transportation system? 100 billion is not that much for the US economy to soak up. Russia has a massive railway network and Russia far larger and has far more remote areas than the US. Imagine how much you'd save not owning a car.