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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Electricity, at least in our case is hyro-powered, locally owned and 
controlled and produces jobs locally.  All around good use of a natural 
resource.

I'll have to ask my dad about the overall efficiency of the other forms of 
electric power.  He has most of those figures because he worked on a lot of 
the hydro-powered plants out here and has done some of the research work 
when they tried to set up a couple of coal-powered plants out here. 
Although why in the world anyone would want to haul coal a thousand or so 
miles and call it efficient is beyond me!  At anyrate it didn't happen.

We had all those studies done on trucking vs. train a couple of years back. 
The train wins hands down.  However, the trucking lobby is more powerful. 
Sad but true!

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>
> I was wondering about the efficiency aspect of it.  Our neighbor the truck
> driver protested that although fuel prices might triple, still, says he, 
> trucks
> are more efficient than trains.  I dug a bit.  In order to pull (level 
> grade)
> 100 loaded boxcars, it takes four engines the size of his truck engine.
> Doesn't sound like trucks are more efficient to me!  When I quizzed him, 
> he said he
> meant they were more efficient in that you got your load to its 
> destination
> more quickly, two days instead of three.