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Posted by WillD on Wed Mar 4 00:48:32 2015, in response to Re: DC Streetcar 'possibly not going to happen', posted by SLRT on Tue Mar 3 13:33:01 2015. Transit use of oil is an insignificant percentage of domestic oil consumption. Really the primary benefit transit derives from the U.S. Navy's sea lines of communication protection mission is that the DoD absorbs the risk insurers like Lloyds would otherwise charge to supertanker owners as their behemoths transited the Strait of Hormuz. But that argument would require you to acknowledge the US Military's role in subsiding oil prices.SEPTA's rail system and PATCO are both effectively nuclear powered outside of a few hours during which there is peak electrical demand and the coal and gas peaker plants come online. There is something like 6 Gigawatts of nuclear generating capacity effectively surrounding the Philly Metro area, which only uses around 8 GW at peak. And that's to say nothing of the dams on the Susquehanna or Three Mile Island. To a lesser extent Chicago, even with the closure of Zion NPP, still gets a significant fraction of its electricity from nuclear power. Sadly Metra and the CTA don't use much of it. |
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