Impossibly expensive? “The price tag: about $90 billion in today’s dollars, just for capital costs.” To save (their words) Texas water supply, a State with a

Impossibly expensive? “The price tag: about $90 billion in today’s dollars, just for capital costs.” To save (their words) Texas water supply, a State with a population of 30 million people. A passenger rail system between LA and San Francisco. “The latest estimate for San Francisco to Los Angeles is $106 billion — more than three times the original cost estimate.” https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/us-transportation-secretary-duffy-announces-review-california-high-speed-rail-project https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/us-transportati... To potentially serve 30 Million “riders” annually with a rail transit service,. So 100 Thousand riders/day? Three tenths of a percent of all Californians? On a corridor that already has auto, bus and air options? Where’s the salvation here? https://hsr.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2024-Draft-Business-Plan-020724-A11Y.pdf https://hsr.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2024-Draft-Bus... If the Texas plan is impossibly expensive, where does that leave the California high-speed rail plan? Nuclear is a bit silly. Solar/wind is perfect…you really don’t care exactly when the water moves.