One of the Green New Deal ideas that the current crop of Democrat Presidential hopefuls have all supported is eliminating air travel in favor of high speed rail. What could go wrong?

California to pull plug on billion-dollar bullet train, cites ballooning costs

Imagine that. More importantly, imagine that *nation* *wide,* with every single commercial air route replaced with this sort of high speed rail. The Los Angeles-San Francisco train has apparently already will eventually cost $77 *billion* dollars, and hasn’t transported anyone anywhere. Pretty sure Boeing and Lockheed could develop a series of competitive hydrogen-fueled VTOL regional airliners for a fraction of that. But even if California had managed to actually build their little train and put it in service for $77 billion, here’s a map of the routes just for  US Airways and American Airlines. How many hundreds of *trillions* of dollars would be needed to replace these routes with bullet trains? What sort of environmental damage would be done? How many farms, homes, businesses and whole towns would have to be displaced?

Bonus round:

The Trouble With Solar

I was up in Ramsey [Minnesota] picking up my camper, and next door is this fantastic $30,000,000 brand-new solar installation.

Doesn’t look like they’re making much electricity today, but it sure is going to make for good union jobs clearing the snow off these things.