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In reply to the discussion: Why can't we have nice things like this? [View all]treestar
(82,383 posts)103. Nonresponsive.
If the oil is on your land, you can drill it yourself or hire Exxon. You can't hire the US government until Congress passes a law creating a public drilling company.
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Hey, if ya can't afford your own jet, you DESERVE to ride with the riffraff.
Jackpine Radical
Mar 2014
#45
I've read it's the case that sign is set in concrete to prevent thievery. Probably so.
kairos12
Mar 2014
#48
Nye has it correct. Most people don't want to take three days by rail to get where they need to
Ikonoklast
Mar 2014
#139
the first transcontinental railroad and others were built over people's property
WHEN CRABS ROAR
Mar 2014
#21
yep - "we" don't seem to have a problem building a pipeline on people's property do we ?!
Locrian
Mar 2014
#110
The big problem with many of those routes is that you need a car to get to the station
Nye Bevan
Mar 2014
#46
I really, really, really, really want to ride on one of those trains some day..
yuiyoshida
Mar 2014
#82
The Northeast, the CA SD-LA-SF corridor, the great lakes region, Northwest Portland - Vancouver
Warren Stupidity
Mar 2014
#134
We could nationalize the petroleum and lumber industries. That alone would knock the Koch
Cleita
Mar 2014
#9
Or at least get better royalties. Why are the Norwegians receiving four times the royalty as we?
Scuba
Mar 2014
#52
Norway had a pro. Our side had literally coked-up shills, literally screwing Big Oil's whores ...
Scuba
Mar 2014
#121
You do realize, don't you, that when a company is nationalized fair compensation needs to be paid?
Nye Bevan
Mar 2014
#11
It does. I have nothing against private companies doing the next step that is transporting
Cleita
Mar 2014
#44
Private companies are already looking into commandeering fresh water resources, not only
Cleita
Mar 2014
#124
Not at all familiar with the seizure of assets from US citizens of Japanese descent, are you?
mbperrin
Mar 2014
#99
That, and the fact that we at least nominally respect labor and environmental rules.
Brickbat
Mar 2014
#34
Is that the train that the taxpayers are going to pay for so the wealthy can shuttle back and forth
rhett o rick
Mar 2014
#70
No. And for general info, the "wealthy" FLY to Vegas. Freight has the right of way down Cajon Pass
cherokeeprogressive
Mar 2014
#77
Bullet Train Envy is getting to be like what I've read about Penis Envy.
cherokeeprogressive
Mar 2014
#79
Did anyone mention the corruption involved in all this railway spending and the poor construction?
sammytko
Mar 2014
#112
Yes, they're doubling their fleet, from one to two, neither of which will be nuclear powered.
Scuba
Mar 2014
#128
Their "aircraft carriers" aren't much more than helicopter platforms.
Warren Stupidity
Mar 2014
#136
Two aircraft-carrier task forces for each of the seven oceans is an essential element to
indepat
Mar 2014
#143
The only times I've ridden trains (bullet or otherwise) has been on European vacations.
Hamilton Felix
Mar 2014
#146