Trains? Oh well.......?

Yeah, I guess some kinds of folks might think it is living in a "fool's paradise" to pay one third the price for natural gas over coal to make electricity.

Others, those stupid "fools" who like to save money, maybe to go on train rides, or who want to pay less to fuel their cars, or pay less to air condition their homes, and want their grand children to see the Everglades in fifty years might think it is good thing.

Natural gas (aka methane) is probably the most common hydrocarbon in the solar system, and certainly on planet earth. It is found everywhere, and massive new reserves and fracking technology have made it the cheapest hydrocarbon fuel. It is cheaper, cleaner, and easier to use. It can be used to make electricity, cook your food, heat your house or pool, even fuel your car, bus, trash truck, and even choo-choo's..... And, don't that just suck?

But, as I note from some folks have a real yearning to return to the 19th century, were they can toil all day in "soot mines and dust mills" and die at the age of forty five from emphysema and black lung, or even be killed or maimed for life in accidents.... Ah, the good old days, right?

Promising desperate folks in Appalachia, without enough education, with limited skills and few opportunities, used up physically at the age of 50, that they will once again have a reliable pay check, from working in these high sulfur, high operating cost mines, is selling them a "fools paradise".

It is a "fools paradise" to believe that coal traffic will be an increasing traffic base for RR's ever again.

And, it's definitely living in a "fools paradise" to believe that politicians who pander to that myth really give a s#it about those unemployed miners and their plight.

So you'd all better get photos of those coal trains, while you can.

Since it's also a "fools paradise" to believe that these pandering politicians will really be able to use the "gubmint" to role back modern technology and repeal the laws of economics in order to force consumers to consume expensive and inefficient coal in a free society.

The future ain't what it used to be.........