Buyers' remorse for California's 'bullet train to nowhere' - Telegraph

California voters are experiencing buyers' remorse over a $68.4 billion (£44.4 billion) high speed rail project which critics say risks becoming a "bullet train to nowhere."

...A new poll shows almost three fifths would oppose the bullet train and halt public borrowing if given another chance to vote.

Almost seven in 10 said that, if the train ever does run between Los Angeles and San Francisco, they would "never or hardly ever" use it.

Not a single person said they would use it more than once a week, and only 33 per cent said they would prefer the bullet train over a one hour plane
journey or seven hour drive. The cost of a ticket, estimated at $123 each way, also put many off. Jerry Brown, California's Democrat governor, has
championed the project as a way to create jobs and is backed by unions. The 74-year-old governor has been personally committed to a high speed rail link since the 1970s.

Rio Summit: Enviros Want $100 Billion from US for Climate Fund

I have been provided a copy of "The Future We Want" -- emphasis on "We Want!" (stay tuned, boy do they ever) -- which is the draft agreement being cobbled together right now in New York for presentation and acceptance at the upcoming "Rio+20" World Environment Summit. To be held next month in Brazil, this celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the United Nations, led by Europe, of roping the U.S. in a presidential election year into Agenda 21 and the Kyoto Protocol's parent treaty had great aspirations: a "green jobs" treaty.