| Rising Fuel prices and EPA sulfur laws to be | | | | Automated trains, they are coming. Automated |
| introduced in 2006 will shake up the transportation | | | | aircraft? Yes that too, the new jet airliners nearly fly |
| industry as they work to cut costs. Yellow-Roadway | | | | themselves in 0/0 visibility from V-1, V-2 to |
| already has partnered with a Chinese company as | | | | deceleration on the runway upon landing and the |
| they see the writing on the walls here in the states. | | | | Navy has jet fighters that can deliver ordinance and |
| Where will the industry cut costs? Well you could cut | | | | fly home, bomb without seeing, fly without training or |
| out the drivers? They are the second largest cost | | | | fatigue. Trucks maybe that too. Could be twelve to |
| next to fuel? | | | | fifteen years. Trains could be less than 6. Aircraft |
| Trucks cannot drive by themselves yet. Railroads | | | | 10-15. People are not needed, yet the quality of life |
| also hurt and the tonnage will require more engines | | | | issues are at stake here, yet who is looking forward? |
| with less power. We have the technology to use | | | | I see no articles in financial papers, economic papers, |
| air-cushioned rail cars with high speeds and little | | | | magazines, and essays. I see some in Aviation Week |
| power needed due to reduced friction and that will | | | | and Space Technology, Popular Mechanics, Scientific |
| require little fuel. Hydrogen celled Trains? Yes easy | | | | American, yet all these are too specific to a given |
| with air-cushioned technologies. But who is going to | | | | subject with authors who are industry experts in only |
| pay for it? If we destroy our transportation sector | | | | one or two fields. Tomorrow is sooner than you |
| through immediate retrofitting then how will the | | | | think and Hydrogen Cell Cars, Trucks? Four maybe |
| industries leaders pay for all the costs associated | | | | five years away; they have many advantages |
| with the recent paper-swap mergers, and who will | | | | besides fuel costs; they are easier to keep clean due |
| get burned; The Fishes, stockholders owning | | | | to the dirt is more dusty than sticky, requiring less |
| worthless paper. | | | | soap, again good for the environment. |