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CSX Transportation coal trains sit in a rail yard in Printer, Ky. (Luke Sharrett, Getty Images)
As I was driving down Santa Fe Drive the other day, I noticed a train traveling along next to me. It was being pushed and pulled by seven locomotives. With a quick guess, figuring each car at 40 feet, the train was over a mile and a quarter long. Almost every car was carrying coal or oil.
Then I thought of the great-grandchild our family is expecting. What is this child going to do for energy?
They used to say we are fresh out of dinosaurs, or the time it takes to turn them into oil. Is anybody thinking of the plight our progeny will face in the future?
Neil Trudell, Littleton
This letter was published in the Dec. 8 edition.
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