Depending on the equipment used, railroad freight shipment is 50 to 550 percent more energy-efficient than trucking.

Have you heard Obummer mentioning this fact in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon blowout?

You won’t, barring a popular uprising.

Rail shipping workers are also 5550% easier to unionize than a scattered army of atomized, over-worked, beat-down truck drivers.

Draw your own conclusions…