If (low-cost, high-speed rail) is a success I can imagine for cross-border lines the next years there will be opportunities to go to Brussels and Amsterdam, and perhaps from and to London and to Spain.

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Mr Varshney argues that calm areas are kept so by strong non-governmental institutions that cross communal lines.

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Transmission, especially long high-voltage lines that cross states, is extraordinarily hard to get approved, sited, permitted and paid for.

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The European Commission insisted this week that Italy's reluctance to expand cross-border trading and to build new international transmission lines was partly to blame for the latest blackout.

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The plan is to allow product lines like HD camcorders and displays cross-pollinate with the cameras, eventually producing more models like the NV24HD pocket cam and HMX20 camcorder -- and hopefully for cheaper prices, since Sammy will be able to better manage suppliers and the retail channel.

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There were well-understood lines that the cartels could not cross.

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Outside of oil and gas, Hunt owns stakes in power plants in the Northeast, transmission lines in Texas, including a 150 megawatt cross-border line with Mexico built in 2007.

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At issue now is the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule that attempts to limit the levels of harmful emissions as they traverse across state lines.

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