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In reply to the discussion: California Hits the Brakes on High-Speed Rail Fiasco [View all]seabeckind
(1,957 posts)The poster was saying he is opposed generally to fossil fuels. To some extent so am I but I have some pragmatism. I think we can get it down considerably from where it is but it will never disappear. There will always be outlying requirements.
The problem as I see it is that those outlying requirements like yours have become the standard.
Of course Denver needs an airport. That's another one of your absurd rebuttals. Indianapolis is a couple hours by car from the Chicago hub. If I didn't abhor the drive THROUGH Chicago, it'd be faster for me to drive there than do the flight.
The last time I returned from my flight to Seattle and sat in that POS terminal for 4 hours over the scheduled departure time I kicked myself for not driving.
As I keep saying and you seem to not hear... your case is far from the norm. Far, far from the norm. You may never want to take a train from Denver to Seattle but the people in Vancouver or Portland might.
Change will never happen until somebody actually takes the first step. And the people who can't or won't see the benefits get out of the way.