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Plenty! Ever see the video of him saying that we could never win the Vietnam war?

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If you're talking about train travel as a replacement for air travel, then renting a car does make sense. Either way you have to get along without your car. However, for shorter trips where you might just drive instead, its just easier to take your own car if you're going to have to get around by driving once you're there. There's a point where the hassle and expense of air/train travel and renting a car at the destination is less than the hassle of a long drive. But I think that point is pretty far away for most people.

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Well, Atlanta IS full of filthy yankees after all... That being said, I think the rail system to Chattanooga is a good idea.To their credit, the roads outside of the metro area really DO suck.

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Troblem with Amtrak is their business plan sucks, their service sucks and neither can be fixed with more funding. Amtrak needs to change its priorites away from maintaining an antiquated system to building high speed rails. You simply cannot upgrade existing frieght rails and get a high speed rail, you have to start from scratch.What Amtrak should do with their existing diesel rolling stock is dedicate it to serving Texas, Florida and California and scrap those incredibly long trans national routes that lose money. The existing rolling stock could change the perception of mass transit from something for poor people who can't afford a car, into the best way to get to work. Simply by using existing frieghtlines an Amtrak could go a long way to relieve traffic between Dallas/Denton, Dallas/Houston, San Deigo/LA and Miami/ Ft. Lauderdale. Those routes would go furtherest to make Amtrak close to profitable and would do the most to reduce national oil demand.In the long run though, Amtrak should look to get out of the business of providing rail service and focus on building track on which privately owned companies could provide service. Additionally, our government should work to provide all the incentives necessary to convert our existing freight rails to electric power so we will have at least one national transportation network thats not dependent on oil.XTC 46, I agree with you if Amtrak stays in its current form, but seriously Amtrak only cast you about $4 bucks, so its not like its a big deal and it does reduce oil demand which slightly lowers your gas prices, and if we had a modern system then less money would be needed to maintain the ever increasing growth on our national highways. Also having a form of transportation thats immune to oil shocks is a national security issue, also if we were able to cut our oil consumption by 20% our current account balance goes into the black, so creating a good national rail road is in the national interest.

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While I know this thread is 2 months old by now, I just need to come back and say to the f**ktard above me that George W. Bush is from Massachusetts.

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