I developed a handout for the Peak Oil & Environment conference in DZC and handed out 263 of them.  I send about 5 electronic versions out each week to retired politicans, columnists, professors, think tanks, etc.

Send me an eMail at Alan_Drake@Juno.com for a copy to send out as well if you like. (Anyone is welcome ! :-)

I am working for more streetcars here in New Orleans and developing some theories for their use and route planning.  Plus more local recovery work whereever I can.

Pushing my agenda here, which I think will grow in influence over time.

I am pushing long odds, I know.  But if I DON'T try, the odds are still longer.

I figure several thousand hours of my effort (+ money) will have a >1% and less than <5% chance to impact public policy in some positive way.

I accept that "cost" and odds.


Yeah, I know - I was there when you were handing all those things out at the meeting in DC.  Long odds but worth the effort.  In reality, I am just trying to think of ideas that can get things moving more quickly.

Is there any chance that Canadian railroads might be more amenable than the U.S. railroads to electrification?