This is the future. You will take an electric train to work, you will get shitfaced on Amtrak branded wine coolers and you will take an ebike to a vegtable market for 100% organic, non-GMO local food. Mcdonalds drive-through is already defacto dead due to the labor shortage, park-and-pickup and ubereats anyway.
The most amusing part of the whole Russia takedown is how California's high-speed rail project, and the similar projects in Washington and Illinois are effectively confirmed go at this point. You think zoomers can afford cars? They can't even pay their student loans. This is the new society tomorrow's world is being built around. We are past the inflection point beyond no return. You cannot go back to the cheap energy world of the late 20th century, because that world is gone.
>n-nooo I can't drive to work the european superior man always went to his work either by riding a bicycle or taking the train, but I guess you are a subhuman
Wyatt Russell
>Lived all over Illinois You are retarded if you think we will ever have a high speed rail project
Thomas Lewis
>Point of no return user, there's only one hangup on energy and its political.
Michigan bought their tracks and the train to Detroit is already 110 mph. Going all electric only requires finding a path into Chicago. The southern leg to STL can probably be bought by ILDOT in a similar fashion soon, and Wisconsin could always decide to do the same into Milwaukee.
Christian Wood
Bet you the petroleum companies report record profits this year.
Hudson Watson
Duh. You do understand how profit and loss work, right?
Thomas Powell
Guns are useless if you have no gas to mobilize them with. Fortunately, the government will ration gas to itself first and critical industry like railroads. Truckers can wait in line for fuel, as they did in the last gas crisis.
Consider that despite the supply chain crisis, America's railroads are still getting new locomotives and new battery tenders they ordered on time. This occurs even though most of the US auto industry is dark due to China refusing to supply them with computer chips. The additional fuel crisis will utterly destroy the US auto market just as it did in 2008, but this time Biden won't bother bailing out GM again. Better get those C9s while you still can because there won't be a C10.
Rail is pretty nice tho. Doesn't all have to be high speed, good dense normal speed is cool too.
Anthony Price
One thing a lot of nonburgers don't understand (by ignorance) is the US cargo rail system is the premier in the world. Nothing comes close. It can not and will not work for passenger, despite what future bullet sponges insist.
Parker Long
The existing rail system is kino, used to take it all time into downtown. work from home now though.
It's actually $6.03 where I live and it's $6.15 in most of San Francisco although I only pay $4.85 because Costco. I got to show up at 530 because the line gets so long the police direct traffic.
Colton Myers
Yes boomers are failures next topic
Caleb Brooks
Fuckin piss weak, mate. We've been paying 10$ a gallon for a while now. It's fucking normal around here.
Luke Morales
If its already very busy in most places you probably need more tracks, preferably separate for passengers and maybe faster smaller quantities of freight / cars so train lenghts/speeds don't mix much.
Nathaniel Brown
Car culture is a cancer, it's good that it's dying Now we just need what comes next to actually be good
People don't want rail. Niggers like OP and will defend public transport right until their heads are opened up by other forms of high speed metal.
Michael Brooks
haha seethe at the pump goy
Tyler Ross
I can afford quadruple the price. 93 octane premium. Now elect someone to cut red tape, not impose artificial restrictions before civil war pops off
Oliver Richardson
desu the real secret is to get a diesel and run bad gasoline thinned down in it. I know a guy who gets bad blend gas for about ~75 cents/gal and runs it in his shitty volvo. Only problem is that it chugs like an old truck and you have to remove the cat. He ended up getting a Tesla since nobody wants a diesel volvo because it's a diesel and a volvo.
Cameron Moore
>Now elect someone to cut red tape, not impose artificial restrictions before civil war pops off
gonna be a short civil war if one side can't buy gas
Ayden Allen
then what's the problem? if you can afford triple the price why produce more oil?
Elijah Richardson
I'm not a selfish cunt trying to shove people in to public boxes to be carted around on the government's schedule.
Xavier Green
>Guns are useless if you have no gas to mobilize them with t. brainlet I guess before cars no one ever traveled. Sad!
Christian Stewart
No country that couldn't mobilize self-propelled automobiles ever won a war after WW1. This includes Vietnam and Afghanistan as both the NVA and Taliban made extensive use of vehicles even if they were just pickups.
Cameron Nelson
Ye it really reduces the amount of cars in/between cities.
