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Trains Rock! Trucks suck: 4x less efficient. Shift freight from truck to rail
A proposed National System of Interstate and Defense RAILROADS, as an infrastructure project for the next fifty years by J. William Vigrass To the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission, USDOT Bldg., L’Enfant Plaza, 400 7th St. N.W. … Continue reading
Posted in Railroads, Transportation What To Do
Tagged efficiency, energy, freight, rail, train, truck
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Almost half of Rail Freight is Energy, increasingly Crude Oil
Source: American Association of Railroads. 46% of all tonnage hauled by freight trains is Energy: In 2014, crude oil will likely be 650,000 carloads — 2% of all carloads, 2.2% of tonnage. In addition 2.6% of rail tonnage was refined … Continue reading
Biggest Waste of Wealth in All of history: America’s Interstate Highway system
A book review by Alice Friedemann of: Swift, Earl. 2012. The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways. Related articles $46 Trillion Infrastructure in USA, $6 Trillion is Transportation Expressways & … Continue reading
Posted in Concrete, Infrastructure Books, Roads, Transportation, Transportation Infrastructure, Trucks
Tagged damage, highway, interstate, truck
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Expressways & Interstates are only designed to last for 20 years
Preface. I make the case that civilization would end in a week if trucks stopped running in my first book, and though I had in mind that they would be running low on diesel fuel on the downside of world … Continue reading
Posted in Infrastructure & Fast Crash, Roads, Trucks
Tagged energy efficiency, infrastructure, railroad, roads, train, truck
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