747-SUPERTANKER WATER FLEET or California Bullet Ghost Train

747-SUPER WATER TANK FLEET or BULLET GHOST TRAIN

TRUTH BE TOLD! 

Dumb California taxpaying voters made the choice of spending $40 billion dollars [first estimated total cost in 2008] for a bullet train instead of selecting and voting to pay $40 billion to project a Fleet of 747 Supertankers Air-Tankers to fight guaranteed annual forest fires and vast terrain fires [2008-2024].  Not only did “dumb California taxpaying voters select $40 billion for a “bullet ghost train” to nowhere, they voted against spending $40 billion dollars for the much needed Desalination Water Plants along the California Pacific coastline.  The Desalination Water Plant projects are seriously needed and they are a guarantee for helping with guaranteed yearly water draughts throughout the state.  

Well, $40,000,000,000 bucks [$40 billion bucks] have converted into $135,000,000,000 dollars [$135 billion California taxpayer bucks] for a fantasy ghost bullet train that has yet to launch from San Francisco to Los Angeles.  The bullet train building-project started in 2008; it’s now 2024 and no train is in sight or close to any railroad tracks.

Therefore, how many 747-Supertanker Fleets designed for fighting forest fires could have been built and paid for since 2008?  The estimated cost in 2008 to convert a 747-Airliner into a 747-Supertanker was tagged at $30 million bucks [2008]. 

Knowing California has guaranteed annual forest fires with damage cost running close to $1,000,000,000,000 [$1 TRILLION DOLLARS] would serve as priority for California to purchase fleets of 747-Supertanker Aerial Firefighting Air-tankers.  The 747-Supertanker Aircraft is rated to carry up to 19,600 US gallons (74,000 L) of fire retardant or water. It is the largest aerial firefighting aircraft in the world. The Russian Ilyushin Il-76 Super Airtanker can only carry 11,000 US gallons (41,600 L).  

The average project cost TODAY to convert a 747-Airliner into a 747-Supertanker today [2024] is approximately $70 million per project.  How many 747-Supertankers can you get for $135 BILLION BUCKS???   

How many Desalination Water Plants along the California Pacific coastline could have been built since 2008 within the budget of $135 billion dollars? 

[$135,000,000,000]  One hundred and thirty five BILLION bucks on a ghost-bullet-train instead of building Desalination Plants on the California Pacific Coast to help offset guaranteed water draughts throughout the state should not be close choice.

Building a desalination plant requires major upfront capital investments, often totaling hundreds of millions.  Example:  

A 5 MGD plant would cost $12–18 million.

A 25 MGD plant estimate is $60–100 million.  

These high construction costs make seawater desalination one of the most expensive forms of freshwater production [humans need water and not a ghost-train]. However, once built, desalination can provide a drought-proof, climate resilient water supply over a plant’s 30–60 year lifetime.

NOW!  A question to dumb California taxpayers and their dumb governor Newsom:

HOW MANY  747-SUPERTANKER FLEETS and DESALINATION WATER PLANTS could have been built since 2008 with a combined budget of $135,000,000,000 [$135 BILLION DOLLARS]? 

MAJOR TIP FOR TODAY:  President Trump during his previous administration [2016] denied federal funding for California’s Bullet Ghost Train.  He stipulated that any federal funding should be directed at building Desalination Water Plants along the California coast line to help with droughts.  President Trump also suggested that California strategically place more Water Air Tankers around the state to fight forest fires.  

ON THE OTHER HAND,,,, the biden administration has given California over $3,000,000,000 [$3 BILLION DOLLARS] federal funds for its bullet train project.