Hey Arnold, do you really not get it?

High Speed Rail is THE way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions!

From a January 2006 report “High Speed Rail and Greenhouse Gas Emissions” by the Center for Clean Air Policy and the Center for Neighborhood Technology:

See that big bar there on the left hand side? That’s California!

(And if I read the report correctly, this was even calculated based on the assumption that diesel powered trains would be used - CAHSR actually calls for electric operation, which should result in even higher savings).

Come on, Arnold, we want to know why you won’t support it.

[via RAFT]

Posted in: Uncategorized | April 30, 2007 9:35 pm

2 Comments »

Marcel Marchon, on May 1, 2007 @ 10:58 am

This blogger here also wrote about this:
http://farleysays.blogspot.com/2007/05/high-speed-rail-helps-fight-global.html

California High Speed Rail Buzz | TrainBlog, on May 2, 2007 @ 10:02 pm

[…] Lot’s of talk these days on the web about California High Speed Rail. Probably prompted by the reluctance of our governor to support it and by the fact that the Convention of the California Democratic Party approved a resolution pushing the project forward. Well, the real test of that will be in the forthcoming budget deliberations in the legislature - there, we will see whether the Democrats really support it and push through full funding of the CHSR Authority for the next fiscal year. […]