Rowe gets vote of confidence: also energy manager applauded.(YOUR LETTERS: OUR READERS SPEAK OUT)(Letter to the Editor)

Transportation Solution

Dear Editor:

Commission Co-Chair John Rowe, who used to head our Central Maine Power Co. in Maine had an excellent reputation while here, and is obviously improving on it now as CEO of Exelon Corp plus the Foundation project ("Foundations Release Energy Plan to Gov't" January EUN).

I definitely feel there needs to be a lot more focus on oil too, more or less along the lines recommended [by the Foundation]. I would add a re-invention of railroads in America (to save oil by using electricity to move people and goods fast and efficiently and reduce air pollution from jets and cars simultaneously).

We can add an elevated rail line system along interstate highways. Many in Congress are calling for this. That's about 42,000 miles of highway or 84,000 miles of elevated two-way train lines (looking at the interstate highway system map, that's about nine double lines north and south and six east and west). At $5 million a mile, that's a public investment of $500 billion. Do it, and cities across the U.S. will be installing new stations everywhere, and train builders will create all kinds of ...