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I don’t want fossil fuel cars

I don’t want electric cars

I want fast trains so I can go visit Grandma

(she’s a sweet old lady and I’d like to visit more often without killing the planet, my wallet, or a pedestrian)

  • LionelEnglish
    13·
    5 months ago

    How is a train any different? It’s still fossil fuels.

    • psud@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      5 months ago

      It pulls many carriages, full of people, using far, far less fuel per passenger. It is also not unrealistic to electrify the rail network

    • Exocrinous@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      An electric train on a renewable grid isn’t fossil fuels, and an electric train on a mixed or fully fossil grid is a more efficient use of fossil fuels.