Replies to post #2149 on The Rising Influence of Rising Affluence

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i don't see how a gov't subsidized [CNG] infrastructure build is affordable or warranted in the US. If my memory is correct, a subsidized intrastate operation in the western US (i think Utah but might've been WY or CO) had to be shut down last year because it failed to live up to projected demand and cost.

Well, it probably doesn’t make sense in CO or UT or WY, but it might make a lot of sense in the dense Northeast. Especially if Amtrak’s fastest train continues to take 7 hours to go from Boston to Washington :- (

[DewDiligence]

I also have difficulty understanding how a high-speed train between Tampa and Orlando provides value to anybody but the folks who build the train and the tracks.

Officials in Florida evidently agree with you—see the next post.

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Exact figures for the number of natural-gas vehicles on the road are hard to come by. But James Harger, chief marketing officer of Clean Energy Fuels Corp., an installer of natural-gas fueling stations that is partly owned by billionaire investor T. Boone Pickens, estimates 15% of U.S. buses and trash trucks run on natural gas.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704740604576301550341227910.html

This 15% figure is hard to believe, IMO.