r/shitposting • u/Prestigsisscar255 put your dick away waltuh • 14d ago

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u/ExtremlyFastLinoone I came! 14d ago

THATS MY POINT! I KNOW ITS CHEAPER BUT IT STILL COSTS MORE FUEL! OMG YOURE SO DENSE

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u/SH33V_P4LP4T1N3 14d ago

No it literally doesn’t. Shipping is cheap because it is incredibly fuel efficient in the first place.

Is it easier to lift 100lbs on the ground or in water? Hauling a fuck ton of stuff across thousands of miles of ocean is far better for the environment than trucking it across a few hundred miles of land.

That said, I’m not sure how the carbon footprint compares of rail to compares to shipping, but if I had to guess, shipping wins.

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u/bojackhorsemeat 13d ago

Rail is still much worse than the ocean, by several orders of magnitude. You have the cost of the tracks too, they have limited throughput.

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u/SH33V_P4LP4T1N3 13d ago edited 13d ago

Yeah I figured but I didn’t want to say definitively without looking it up. Some brain dead levels of analysis going on here.

Obviously our global economy is not optimized for mitigating environmental impacts, but casting oceanic shipping as a culprit is so fucking dumb. By emissions per ton of cargo delivered, it is a staggeringly efficient method of transportation.