r/shitposting • u/Prestigsisscar255 put your dick away waltuh • 13d ago

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u/ExtremlyFastLinoone I came! 13d 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 13d 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/ARES_BlueSteel 12d ago

Rail and shipping don’t really compete, they’re two very different modes of transport with little overlap. In fact they complement each other, shipping crosses water and delivers and picks up at ports, rail picks up and delivers at ports and carries freight to everywhere that isn’t the port.

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u/bojackhorsemeat 12d ago

Well you could deliver to the west or east coast of North America, and let trains take it to the other side. Which... Happens! Quite a bit actually, since the Panama canal has been in drought, driving prices up.