MarkTTU
Lifetime Supporting Member
Couple of thoughts/comments...
Until recently the government regulations (environmental and others) made it very cost prohibitive to build a new refinery; old refineries were grandfathered (for the most part) making them much cheaper to operate. This is the same problem California suffered a few years back with electricity production; they had regulated away the ability to build new power plants.
Has anyone gone back to say 1960 and looked at the price of gas? If adjusted that price for inflation over the last 46 years what would the price be in today's dollars? Is this more or less than we are actually paying today? Basically I'm wondering (though don't have the time to do the research) if gas has gotten cheaper or more expensive in real terms.
Kamenges has a good point... The communist system is great in theory, but it will not and does not work in the real world.
As others have stated, the cost to build an all electric rail system in the US would be staggering... As an example of that; when driving from Lubbock Texas to Albuquerque New Mexico you drive along a small two lane road with moderate traffic; off to the side of this road are two tracks, both with heavy use and trains running 80+ MPH. Its nearly 400 miles to Albuquerque and there are about 3 gas stations and nothing else in between...
Until recently the government regulations (environmental and others) made it very cost prohibitive to build a new refinery; old refineries were grandfathered (for the most part) making them much cheaper to operate. This is the same problem California suffered a few years back with electricity production; they had regulated away the ability to build new power plants.
Has anyone gone back to say 1960 and looked at the price of gas? If adjusted that price for inflation over the last 46 years what would the price be in today's dollars? Is this more or less than we are actually paying today? Basically I'm wondering (though don't have the time to do the research) if gas has gotten cheaper or more expensive in real terms.
Kamenges has a good point... The communist system is great in theory, but it will not and does not work in the real world.
As others have stated, the cost to build an all electric rail system in the US would be staggering... As an example of that; when driving from Lubbock Texas to Albuquerque New Mexico you drive along a small two lane road with moderate traffic; off to the side of this road are two tracks, both with heavy use and trains running 80+ MPH. Its nearly 400 miles to Albuquerque and there are about 3 gas stations and nothing else in between...