Comment 17548

By statius (registered) | Posted January 23, 2008 at 18:57:38

Bazz,

You sidestepped my point altogether and failed to address the reality that rail and water transport are simply impracticable to meet the day to day transport needs of modern businesses by recourse to a tangential argument of necessity. It is fantastic to imagine that government will ever impose such draconian rationing as you suggest. (You really are deluding yourself if you think this is going to happen - it just isn't politically realistic given where the power bases of party politicians lie). It won't have to. You are right to argue that the rising cost of diesel may eventually force businesses to adopt other means of long-distance transport, but this will be an evolutionary change - i.e. business models will adapt slowly over time to accomodate changes in cost structures, etc. (they already are, as they always have). My argument in any case wasn't that businesses will continue to be able to rely upon trucks to the extent that they do now indefinitely, but rather that it is unrealistic to imagine that rail and water transport will be able to provide an adequate substitute.

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