“It cost $970 to fly from London to New York and then San Francisco to London.
It cost $1500 to go ONE WAY across the US ($3000 round trip).
And that’s supposed to be our future of transportation? A fun trip it can be, but economical? Not even close. And when you consider the TOTAL airtime of those two legs is 15 hours, and the train was at least 4 days one way, it’s not even close to time efficient.”
I’ll play along. Let’s all complain that going across the Atlantic in a steamship is slower and more expensive than flying.
Steamship could be a fun excursion, no doubt - just like that train trip across the US. But Willie loves to tout trains as the future savior of our transportation needs. And the facts are they are much more expensive and slower than other options available today.
And what Willie HATES saying is that he’s a greenie/peak-oil believer. Trains are “required” because Willie thinks we’re out of oil, when the fact is we have hundreds of years of oil in our country right now; we just don’t have the political will to get it.
So Willie’s posts need to be read with the understanding he’s pushing an anti-oil/green agenda only, and trains are just a way to do that. It’s part of some deep-seated hatred he has against “Big Oil” for some unnamed sin they committed against him way back in his history...
You're missing the point ... you can't see much of interest at 35,000 feet in a airplane. Train travel allows travelers to see the country at ground level, much more interesting.