Lefties like trains for passengers cause they don't wanna sit next to the darkies on a Greyhound bus. There's also prestige from living in a city with passenger rail like Caltrain.

Trucks and buses are much cheaper initially but not in terms of fuel per mile.

None of it really matters. Most commerce is still brick and mortar. Yes, it doubled during lockdown but it just means it went from 10 to 20% for online sales.

I don't see how Amazon can possibly sustain this promise. If you look at Prime, it's basically a pyramid scheme.

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trains achieve 500 ton-miles per gallon for cargo. trucks 150 ton-miles per gallon for cargo. a passenger car is 2 tons and achieves 30 mpg so 60 ton-miles per gallon but that is DEAD WEIGHT of the car itself NOT useful cargo.

THIS is why lefties love trains. trains reduce the carbon footprint of cargo ( you ).

unfortunately because a subway train can take about 1,000 passengers to approach even a fraction of its capacity it has to operate in extremely dense areas that look like this:

from there the challenge Urbanist filth faces is to convince us that we want to live in such an area rather than in an area that looks like this:

towards that end they bend into a pretzel with the mental gymnastics to convince us that we would be happier to live with noise, stench, pollution, homeless, niggers and prostitutes and pedal through all that on a bicycle in rain and snow than enjoy an air conditioned self-driving personal vehicle on a way to a home with a backyard and view of the sky.

Good points. You're gonna have a blast arguing with Yuropoors especially the Dutch.

To their defense, I'll say that girls who drive cars are a lot fatter than the ones who cycle. As a rule of thumb.

oh i agree - when i was in San Diego California they had some kind of Rickshaw service there where college girls in short shorts pedal passengers around as a taxi service. they all had hot legs.

all women of reproductive age should be banned from operating motor vehicles and eating junk food.

it's for their own good ! ( and not in any way for my masturbatory pleasure )

This is so sexist, it must have crashed a couple of mastodon servers. You need to implement this in new Hampshire, new meaning of live free or die.