Genocide Tendency posted:The only possible monkey wrench is a handful of companies figuring out they can bypass it by dumping a bunch of money into lobbying for massive railway improvements and expansion. Essentially making the tax payers foot the bill for a massive high speed rail system. Which if you are really good at forward thinking, you do that, push the government to make it a federal entity instead of private, and then lobby again for some stupidly low freight rate. this would cost mutli-trillions of dollars to do. every single mile of track, signal, yard, and terminal would have to be upgraded. every route would have to be quadruple tracked to handle the volume. every single railcar and locomotive in existance now would have to be scrapped and/or rebuilt to a higher standard and then hundreds of thousands of additional railcars, containers and locomotives would have to be bought to handle the conversion of freight from road to rail. the whole project would then take mutliple decades to complete. it would create tens/hundreds of billions of dollars in operating expense that would be difficult to make back given how cheap trucking is. and you would still have to pay truckers to move your container or trailer from the terminal to the dc, just fewer of them.
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TBeats posted:If people tell you that knives or cars are just as dangerous as guns, ask them why the knives in their kitchen or the car in their driveway aren't enough for home defense. i think its probably because people expect the other person in a conversation of being capable of understanding nuance.
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:Democrats fuckin shelled the GOP tonight in the game, 11-2 the shooter probably had bets down on credit with the wrong people
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