In all your sophistry you sure put a lot of words in my mouth. Good on ya. Your trying to draw me into apple and oranges argument which I have no interest to partake.



BOB2 Wrote:
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> 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...