"For New York, it's time to get serious about extending the reach of electrified mass transit deep into the outerboroughs and suburbs"

    In real terms this means:

-- more mountaintop removal to convert from imported oil to electricity generated by strip mined coal.

Sounds like a wonderful plan to me!

Actually it is.

Weighing the alternatives, carbon emissions go down#, oil imports go down, and in a couple of decades renewable wind electricity and/or nuke and/or Quebec Hydro will supplant the coal.

Sorry about the W VA plains, but the higher priority gains out weight the losses.

# The gains in efficiency significantly greater than the carbon of gasoline vs. carbon from coal.

Best Hopes,

Alan