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LA Ridership Up, Rebate Checks Go to Oil

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Similar to what we are seeing across the country, the LA Daily News reports that ridership of their Metro light rail lines are up 13% from a year ago. As riders mingle with their coworkers and start bragging about how much money they are saving riding transit rather than driving their car, this could start to spread.

On the bad side, we have this news:

“Since President Bush signed the economic stimulus rebates into law this winter, average families have spent their entire stimulus checks to fill their gas tanks, according to the California Public Interest Research Group. Typical U.S. households have spent more than $1,500 on gasoline since Bush approved the rebates…”.

Very convenient for Bush and his oil friends. All the government rebates are slowly (er, quickly) filtering their way back to the oil community.

Drill Now – Don’t Fall For It!

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All of this “Drill Now” Republican-led movement has me worried.

Gas prices are affecting us middle-class Americans. No doubt. Down South, we very much rely on the automobile and obviously gas. Drill now sounds like a plan. But believe me it is not.

Drilling offshore will provide a few wealthy Americans (Bush’s cronies) with more wealth at the expense of all of us Americans that enjoy the coast with out oil rigs lining the horizon. If you believe our drilling will bring gas prices down, well, then you are probably one of those that think Bush is a smart man.

The facts are this: The Energy Information Administration projects that if we go the drilling route, we could hit peak production of 200,000 barrels a day by 2030 – equal to approximately 0.2 percent of projected world production at that time.

Do the math. 0.002 x $4.00 = .008. So instead of paying $4.00 a gallon, we’d be paying $3.992 per gallon. Is this worth it for our country? My vote is NO! Of course this assumes the extra oil on the market would decrease gas prices by the exact same percent increase of new oil. Still a few cents plus or minus, the big picture is that we will not save our country by drilling. We have real problems with demand increasing due to China and India seeing growth no other countries have ever seen before.

Instead of padding the pockets of the oil rich wealth mongers in America, we need a real alternative for driving and that is a nationwide train system that is government subsidized to make it as affordable to families across the country.

Train System Needed in US now more than ever

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We’ve been hearing more and more about gas prices. Ad nauseum. I’m tired of all the complaining. We have had years upon years of preparing for this day and we did not do it.

Some lady by the name of Twinkle is running for office in Alabama. Her campaign: She is Christian and a mother and also thinks we need to “DRILL NOW!”. Hmm. OK, so let’s rape and pillage the earth. Not only the earth, but the earth in our very own back yard. All so gas prices can – if we are lucky – come down a nickel for the next couple of years. Then we are still pushing off the inevitable… high gas prices.

When will we learn that we need to start PREPARING for a future? If we want a transportation system that may have a chance, we need to start looking at alternatives such as a mass TRAIN system.

That is what this site is about. To contribute thoughts and ideas to be able to build a system of trains like Europe and other parts of the world, and why this has not happened and does not seem to be gaining traction in the US.

NOW is the time!