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Josh Kraushaar
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One provision in Green New Deal:

“Expanding high-speed rail to ‘a scale where air travel stops becoming necessary’”


Clayton Cubitt
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17m17 minutes ago

Clayton Cubitt Retweeted Josh Kraushaar

I took a bullet train in Japan one time that went 200/mph
and was so quiet and smooth it was like sitting still. It was ****in
space-age awesome and nobody should be able to chant “USA! USA!”
until we have better.
Let's see... train from LA to NYC at 200 MPH is a quick little 14 hour train ride... or about 3 times as long as a flight.

This is assuming it's a straight line. With no stops. And no hills/mountains.

And that's two cities in the US. Next I need to get to Minneapolis. And DC. And Miami. And Omaha, Nebraska.

This is gonna be one hell of a train system. We need to build this system without cars, machines, or oil because that would be bad. Better get to work.