Comments on: Ship By Rail, Reduce Annual Greenhouse Gas Emissions By More Than 12 Million Tons http://gas2.org/2008/05/22/ship-by-rail-reduce-annual-greenhouse-gas-emissions-by-more-than-12-million-tons/ What is the future of fuel? What's new? What's next? Since 2007, Gas 2 has covered a rapidly changing world coming to terms with its oil addiction. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:40:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rebecca Furr http://gas2.org/2008/05/22/ship-by-rail-reduce-annual-greenhouse-gas-emissions-by-more-than-12-million-tons/#comment-2666 Rebecca Furr Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:55:34 +0000 http://gas2.org/2008/05/22/ship-by-rail-reduce-annual-greenhouse-gas-emissions-by-more-than-12-million-tons/#comment-2666 I think the truck and truck driver are once again being cast in a negative light and viewed as being dispensable. I drive a truck for a living and I can tell you right now, I'm not anxious to shuttle freight back and forth from railyards on short mileage, highly nerve wracking runs instead of the long haul, money making, easier on the driver runs. Your plan has an obvious flaw, you're gonna need drivers to get your freight from railyard to customer and most drivers don't like that kind of run and will not do it unless their pay is upped to compensate for the extra trouble so there goes your money saving freight option out the window. People always overlook and even demonize truck s and truck drivers but if drivers all took the week off at the same time, you would see the store shelves sitting empty and the gas stations out of gas etc. You might want to investigate what it's gonna cost to move your freight from rail to customer; it might be an inhibiting factor in your grand plan. I think the truck and truck driver are once again being cast in a negative light and viewed as being dispensable. I drive a truck for a living and I can tell you right now, I’m not anxious to shuttle freight back and forth from railyards on short mileage, highly nerve wracking runs instead of the long haul, money making, easier on the driver runs. Your plan has an obvious flaw, you’re gonna need drivers to get your freight from railyard to customer and most drivers don’t like that kind of run and will not do it unless their pay is upped to compensate for the extra trouble so there goes your money saving freight option out the window. People always overlook and even demonize truck s and truck drivers but if drivers all took the week off at the same time, you would see the store shelves sitting empty and the gas stations out of gas etc. You might want to investigate what it’s gonna cost to move your freight from rail to customer; it might be an inhibiting factor in your grand plan.

]]> By: Rebecca Furr http://gas2.org/2008/05/22/ship-by-rail-reduce-annual-greenhouse-gas-emissions-by-more-than-12-million-tons/#comment-24640 Rebecca Furr Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:55:00 +0000 http://gas2.org/2008/05/22/ship-by-rail-reduce-annual-greenhouse-gas-emissions-by-more-than-12-million-tons/#comment-24640 I think the truck and truck driver are once again being cast in a negative light and viewed as being dispensable. I drive a truck for a living and I can tell you right now, I'm not anxious to shuttle freight back and forth from railyards on short mileage, highly nerve wracking runs instead of the long haul, money making, easier on the driver runs. Your plan has an obvious flaw, you're gonna need drivers to get your freight from railyard to customer and most drivers don't like that kind of run and will not do it unless their pay is upped to compensate for the extra trouble so there goes your money saving freight option out the window. People always overlook and even demonize truck s and truck drivers but if drivers all took the week off at the same time, you would see the store shelves sitting empty and the gas stations out of gas etc. You might want to investigate what it's gonna cost to move your freight from rail to customer; it might be an inhibiting factor in your grand plan. I think the truck and truck driver are once again being cast in a negative light and viewed as being dispensable. I drive a truck for a living and I can tell you right now, I’m not anxious to shuttle freight back and forth from railyards on short mileage, highly nerve wracking runs instead of the long haul, money making, easier on the driver runs. Your plan has an obvious flaw, you’re gonna need drivers to get your freight from railyard to customer and most drivers don’t like that kind of run and will not do it unless their pay is upped to compensate for the extra trouble so there goes your money saving freight option out the window. People always overlook and even demonize truck s and truck drivers but if drivers all took the week off at the same time, you would see the store shelves sitting empty and the gas stations out of gas etc. You might want to investigate what it’s gonna cost to move your freight from rail to customer; it might be an inhibiting factor in your grand plan.

]]> By: Taiwanese Inventor Designs Environmentally Friendly Train System : Gas 2.0 http://gas2.org/2008/05/22/ship-by-rail-reduce-annual-greenhouse-gas-emissions-by-more-than-12-million-tons/#comment-2665 Taiwanese Inventor Designs Environmentally Friendly Train System : Gas 2.0 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:00:18 +0000 http://gas2.org/2008/05/22/ship-by-rail-reduce-annual-greenhouse-gas-emissions-by-more-than-12-million-tons/#comment-2665 [...] California Building 220 MPH High-Speed Train from San Francisco to LA Biodiesel Powers Eastern Washington Railroad Locomotive Honda Deploys Fleet of Auto-Max Railcars to Ship Cars and Trucks to Market Ship By Rail, Reduce Annual Greenhouse Gas Emissions By More Than 12 Million Tons [...] [...] California Building 220 MPH High-Speed Train from San Francisco to LA Biodiesel Powers Eastern Washington Railroad Locomotive Honda Deploys Fleet of Auto-Max Railcars to Ship Cars and Trucks to Market Ship By Rail, Reduce Annual Greenhouse Gas Emissions By More Than 12 Million Tons [...]

]]> By: Uncle B http://gas2.org/2008/05/22/ship-by-rail-reduce-annual-greenhouse-gas-emissions-by-more-than-12-million-tons/#comment-2664 Uncle B Sat, 21 Jun 2008 19:31:32 +0000 http://gas2.org/2008/05/22/ship-by-rail-reduce-annual-greenhouse-gas-emissions-by-more-than-12-million-tons/#comment-2664 Rail fell apart for good reasons in this country and other countries too - most notably Canada. First the entrenchment of a system that was out of date when it left England was copied and secondly strangulation by Unions - from England too. If the USA is to have successful rail systems, they should be designed by aerospace engineers and computer scientists, not 'group-think' rail experts, they have shown us what they think, and it doesn't work! Its Bullshit! Except for very heavy freight. Most highschool grads with some electronics theory realize that rail switching systems are really really old! It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that, in most cases, the load on a rail car weights less than the f**king rail car! Long, long trains jamb our rail lines, and take weeks to deliver goods. Why can't we have smaller engines pulling fewer, lighter cars faster? A computer controlled fast system designed for light freight that connected inter-city and then to each other,could 'shunt' a small load across the country automatically! We Americans just need to pull the rag and invest in the system that serves us the best, and the oil crisis will show that the current diesel truck system is very good, but too expensive. The oil crisis, as it deepens will also drive the required changes in the rail system. Hang on folks! Things are gonna change bigtime! Rail fell apart for good reasons in this country and other countries too – most notably Canada. First the entrenchment of a system that was out of date when it left England was copied and secondly strangulation by Unions – from England too.

If the USA is to have successful rail systems, they should be designed by aerospace engineers and computer scientists, not ‘group-think’ rail experts, they have shown us what they think, and it doesn’t work! Its Bullshit! Except for very heavy freight.

Most highschool grads with some electronics theory realize that rail switching systems are really really old!

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that, in most cases, the load on a rail car weights less than the f**king rail car!

Long, long trains jamb our rail lines, and take weeks to deliver goods. Why can’t we have smaller engines pulling fewer, lighter cars faster?

A computer controlled fast system designed for light freight that connected inter-city and then to each other,could ‘shunt’ a small load across the country automatically! We Americans just need to pull the rag and invest in the system that serves us the best, and the oil crisis will show that the current diesel truck system is very good, but too expensive. The oil crisis, as it deepens will also drive the required changes in the rail system. Hang on folks! Things are gonna change bigtime!

]]> By: Uncle B http://gas2.org/2008/05/22/ship-by-rail-reduce-annual-greenhouse-gas-emissions-by-more-than-12-million-tons/#comment-24639 Uncle B Sat, 21 Jun 2008 19:31:00 +0000 http://gas2.org/2008/05/22/ship-by-rail-reduce-annual-greenhouse-gas-emissions-by-more-than-12-million-tons/#comment-24639 Rail fell apart for good reasons in this country and other countries too - most notably Canada. First the entrenchment of a system that was out of date when it left England was copied and secondly strangulation by Unions - from England too. If the USA is to have successful rail systems, they should be designed by aerospace engineers and computer scientists, not 'group-think' rail experts, they have shown us what they think, and it doesn't work! Its Bullshit! Except for very heavy freight. Most highschool grads with some electronics theory realize that rail switching systems are really really old! It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that, in most cases, the load on a rail car weights less than the f**king rail car! Long, long trains jamb our rail lines, and take weeks to deliver goods. Why can't we have smaller engines pulling fewer, lighter cars faster? A computer controlled fast system designed for light freight that connected inter-city and then to each other,could 'shunt' a small load across the country automatically! We Americans just need to pull the rag and invest in the system that serves us the best, and the oil crisis will show that the current diesel truck system is very good, but too expensive. The oil crisis, as it deepens will also drive the required changes in the rail system. Hang on folks! Things are gonna change bigtime! Rail fell apart for good reasons in this country and other countries too – most notably Canada. First the entrenchment of a system that was out of date when it left England was copied and secondly strangulation by Unions – from England too.

If the USA is to have successful rail systems, they should be designed by aerospace engineers and computer scientists, not ‘group-think’ rail experts, they have shown us what they think, and it doesn’t work! Its Bullshit! Except for very heavy freight.

Most highschool grads with some electronics theory realize that rail switching systems are really really old!

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that, in most cases, the load on a rail car weights less than the f**king rail car!

Long, long trains jamb our rail lines, and take weeks to deliver goods. Why can’t we have smaller engines pulling fewer, lighter cars faster?

A computer controlled fast system designed for light freight that connected inter-city and then to each other,could ‘shunt’ a small load across the country automatically! We Americans just need to pull the rag and invest in the system that serves us the best, and the oil crisis will show that the current diesel truck system is very good, but too expensive. The oil crisis, as it deepens will also drive the required changes in the rail system. Hang on folks! Things are gonna change bigtime!

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