What i wonder about CSX Van is they have more Diesel consumption than I ealized. I thought some of these trains had gone electric?
a 2007 article:
Folks who help North America’s railroads monitor and otherwise manage their fuel use are pretty busy these days. Given fuel’s unpredictable price swings and the increased consumption that corresponds with strong traffic volumes, suppliers who seek to answer railroads’ call likely will get even busier.
“The railroads have operated a long time with less information, unlike shippers like UPS and some of the trucking companies,” says David Baker, president of Lat-Lon L.L.C., which offers a variety of wireless monitoring and tracking solutions to the transportation industry. “So, there’s a catch-up process that’s going on right now.”
How are roads doing it? Strategies range from implementing Global Positioning System technology to ramping up rail-grinding procedures to simply doing a better job of making sure all employees keep conservation front and center.
“We’ve really tried to keep consumption under control,” says Garrick Francis,
CSX Corp.’sdirector of financial communications. “Last year, the average price of diesel fuel was $1.86 [per gallon]. In 2005, it was $1.31.”
It's good they were on the problem as far back as that.
But the price of Diesel today is $5 <------------
and they were freakin' at $1.86.
I would rather expose the children to coal which is ensured world usage due to Russia.
