Amtrak should be expanded, especially in situations where you have 2 major cities fairly close to each other.

Also, I've been on enough crowded subway trains to know that commuter rail is far from dead. Some San Francisco suburbs bought into that nonsense when BART was being planned and originally opted out. They sure regretted it and joined in later at a higher cost.

1. End all farm subsidies

2. End mandated biofuel usage

3. End sugar tariffs

These actions would substantially improve environmental conditions worldwide. It would also raise the third world standard of living and revitalize rural economies in the United States.

2. More pebble bed reactors.

Pebble bed reactors.

Rail is dead. Not only is it a nineteenth century technology in a twenty first century world it's just too dang expensive. Modern just in time delivery systems will fail using rail. Commuter rail fails because of inflexibility, high cost both to build and run, and the fact people will not use it even if it is built.

Modern development codes for cities and counties are anything but "green". They require excess parking areas (too much asphalt and run off) and they encourage too much driving by not allowing market forces to determine siting locations.

Thinking forward instead of backwards would help a lot. Too many people look to force our society back to "a more simple time". That type of misguided effort will yield us nothing.

... the IPCC fails to provide any real support for its key conclusion: "It is very likely that anthropogenic greenhouse-gas increases caused most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century."...

Drop CAFE while you're at it. It's stupid; it gives me (Prius driver) no incentive to drive less; while a gas tax incents me _and_ the Hummer driver to use less gas.

... the IPCC fails to provide any real support for its key conclusion: "It is very likely that anthropogenic greenhouse-gas increases caused most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century."...

... the IPCC fails to provide any real support for its key conclusion: "It is very likely that anthropogenic greenhouse-gas increases caused most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century."...

Drive rail initiatives forward in all major commuter corridors with timeline-specific federal funding.

Invest heavily in much-needed maintenance to and restructuring to the electrical grid. Restructuring to focus on regionalization and localization.

...which ties in to localized power derived in large part from wind farms and hydro. The end product of these sources (electricity) should be subsidized by the gas tax (above).