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High-speed rail construction since 2008 (lemmy.world)
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[–] 3 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

How is this relevant? Sure the states that are oil producing collect taxes from oil producers. It’s a huge benefit especially to Alaska since they can support a soverigb wealth fund but others as well.

However that is not relevant to whether highways are directly profitable

Note that many US trains are diesel, so if you think oil production is a big enough benefit to the economy, it’s also thanks to rail

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    How is you and 48 other people asking whether high ways are profitable relevant? I said I used profitibility as a metric of its usage as trains meant to transport an absolute fuck ton of people

    And why do you only have an issue with the topic you started when it turns out that you lied?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    And you don’t see the hypocrisy of using profitability as a metric for trains yet claiming profitability of highways as irrelevant? This inconsistency is exactly my point.

    And no

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago

    No, the two are not comperative! Roads are not necessarily high ways; comparatively expensive (tho not nearly as so) and meant to conduct large traffic! Though I am sure you could make a comperative example if you even pretended to be good faith! Though fucking again, if a high way was constructed into the fucking nowhere, running through nowhere I would be angry for wasting so much money… Which, fucking again, is my problem

    Thats not a yes or no question! Once again, why do you suddenly have an issue with a topic YOU started once it turned out that your assumption, for which you again LIED, was proven to be false?

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