Posted by Paul on September 05, 2014 at 04:44:18 from (70.197.233.128):
In Reply to: Re: Railroading posted by oldtanker on September 04, 2014 at 18:12:44:
Car design is very much regulated, every detail of the dashboard, the emissions, safety features.....
Farmers are much regulated as to wetlands, manure application, planting of human foods (sweet corn, peas, etc.), and much more.
I would hope the rail roads are governed as much as auto makers and farmers?
I don't care for too much regulation, but with none at all we have a mess as well.
It is difficult to balance things like this, we cry when some other person doesn't have enough, and cry when we get too much.....
Human nature I suppose. ;)
Big oil is paying more per car load than other products are, and it is not just crude oil but the supplies for fracking too - frac sand, etc. get hauled by rail as well.
If pipelines were allowed to be built in a timely fashion then there would be less rail traffic, but tree hungers, land owners, and rail road owners prefer to stop pipelines for various reasons, and so we are stuck with what infrastructure we have.
Railroads, farmers, etc like to use govt and govt regulations for their own benefits, sometimes those regulations need to help out others too.
Always going to be a battle, and everyone sees themselves as the 'little guy' getting walked on.
No real answer or solution here, it is always interesting to see the process at work.
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