McAuliffe travels this part of campaign trail in algae-fueled car

May 7th, 2009
The Progress-Index
Markus Schmidt

PRINCE GEORGE — Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe believes that a interstate high-speed rail would create 176,000 new jobs in Virginia. “We ought to have high speed rail from Washington to Richmond to the Hampton Roads area,” McAuliffe said in an interview with The Progress-Index in Prince George County, where he was campaigning yesterday.

McAuliffe added that the rail could have a stop in Petersburg.

He also pointed out the environmental benefits of such a project. “You’d get rid of tens of thousands of tons of CO2 emissions and we’d get a million cars off the road,” he said.

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