America has trains. We use them for freight because it doesn’t care if it sits for a while or takes weeks to cross the country. Much of the US is too spread out for trains to be super useful for passengers. The areas that make sense do have reasonable passenger rail usage, mostly the east coast metropolis and Chicago to nearby cities.
The contiguous United States has a higher population density than Spain, which has a great high speed rail system. Metropolitan France is not much more denser than that as well.
Chicago to nyc is currently a 20 hour train or a two hour flight. High speed rail would be a massive expense to get a best case scenario of maybe 4 hours. The flight just makes more sense for people. Both cities have good rail options for inter city transport, or even out to suburbs.
Carbon tax is hilarious to me, the third world is burning all of the trash they don’t send down river into the ocean and are absolutely ravaging the world and idiot Europeans are okay with being fleeced for flying mass transit or driving a fuel efficient car. The only carbon tax I’m okay with is private jets - not because carbon taxes make any sense, I’m just fine with arbitrarily taxing the rich. Carbon dioxide makes plants grow faster and the world has historically had higher levels than it has now. It is not a pollutant. People are fucking stupid.
America has trains. We use them for freight because it doesn’t care if it sits for a while or takes weeks to cross the country. Much of the US is too spread out for trains to be super useful for passengers. The areas that make sense do have reasonable passenger rail usage, mostly the east coast metropolis and Chicago to nearby cities.
The contiguous United States has a higher population density than Spain, which has a great high speed rail system. Metropolitan France is not much more denser than that as well.
Chicago to nyc is currently a 20 hour train or a two hour flight. High speed rail would be a massive expense to get a best case scenario of maybe 4 hours. The flight just makes more sense for people. Both cities have good rail options for inter city transport, or even out to suburbs.
If you guys ever properly tax your carbon, that 4 hour electric train will sound much better than a 1 or 2 hour flight in jet fuel.
Though this is a problem worldwide, even here in Europe jet fuel isn’t taxed enough.
Carbon tax is hilarious to me, the third world is burning all of the trash they don’t send down river into the ocean and are absolutely ravaging the world and idiot Europeans are okay with being fleeced for flying mass transit or driving a fuel efficient car. The only carbon tax I’m okay with is private jets - not because carbon taxes make any sense, I’m just fine with arbitrarily taxing the rich. Carbon dioxide makes plants grow faster and the world has historically had higher levels than it has now. It is not a pollutant. People are fucking stupid.