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Increasing use of railroad transportation, especially for feight, could decrease the need for imported Arab oil.
Electrification allows any fuel to be used, and power to be regenerated during braking, but even without electrification the railroad offers massive fuel effeciency advantaged over road due to the physical properties of steel wheel on steel rail http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_resistance
Increasing use of railroad transportation, especially for feight, could decrease the need for imported Arab oil.
ReplyDeleteElectrification allows any fuel to be used, and power to be regenerated during braking, but even without electrification the railroad offers massive fuel effeciency advantaged over road due to the physical properties of steel wheel on steel rail http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_resistance