Why The Government Just Threw Down $225 Million On Hybrid Electric Trains | ThinkProgress

"The Illinois Department of Transportation signed a contract to bring a total of 32 hybrid electric-diesel trains to the United States last month. The trains will start running by 2016. And the project, when all is said and done, will cost the United States $225 million — a number that may sound enormous but that will actually save a significant amount of both money and the carbon pollution that drives climate change...."

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/04/07/3422342/hybrid-diesel-electric-trains/