Actually I heard it was a bit more for the whole project, but that was another excellent bit of your well known sophistry.

You see the tunnel without tracks and the rest of the line that connects to it would be kind of useless, and the total cost of the entire Gothard project was actually around $23 billion... So it's kind of more like the costs of Pacheco...

So, when exactly will we be riding your first 13 billion dollar bullet train segment from Chowchilla to Bakersfield? Any word on that opening date yet? It's still on schedule to be completed and begin operating this year, isn't it?

I'll tell you what LES, let's make a bet.

I'll let you keep your ten billion for the "runaway money train" from Chowchilla to Bakersfield, and you give Mike and I ten billion to spend on CA's other rail passenger corridors.

And then, when we're each done spending it, we'll count who has the most passengers, generates the most passenger miles per train mile, and who has the lowest cost per passenger mile to carry those passengers, at the lowest subsidy and/or most profit per passenger mile...