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A great example of what government can do that the private sector cannot. High-speed intercity rail creates jobs, reduces energy consumption, reduces congestion, and cleans the air. A win on all counts. We could pay for it, in part, just be reducing the subsidies that interstate highways get, requiring that they pay their own way for maintenance based on usage, rather than a tax on fuel.
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Re: market adoption. The key thing is to use the standards-adopting and -promoting power of the gov't to move us all to IPv6. This is exactly the kind of thing the government can do that the private sector cannot.
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Look what Europe is doing! their dependence on hydrocarbon imports is much, much worse than ours, but their economy is in a much better place because of their intercity rail network. At this point we have late-mover's advantage -- Europe has worked out the kinks, we just need to follow their best practices.