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Post Carbon Institute Fellow Anthony Perl answered questions for Green Right Now about President Obama's recent high speed rail initiative launch. The piece also mentions Anthony's work with the Post Carbon Institute including the recent Open Letter to President Obama.
From the article:
“The Obama administration’s launch of a high-speed rail program is the most important transportation initiative that the U.S. has seen in my 47-year lifetime,” says Perl. “The program opens the door to a post-carbon mobility future in ways that tinkering with fuel efficiency, auto emissions and ‘intelligent’ vehicle and high designs can never accomplish.”
In an e-mail chat this week, Perl talked about why the President’s rail plan is so crucial.
“Rail offers the only proven surface transportation technology that can be run on renewable energy right now,” Perl says. “All other systems – hybrids, battery cars, hydrogen fuel cells etc. – are in the prototype (or earlier stages) and will not be ready in time for our society to survive oil depletion.”
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