USA Will Invest in High-Speed ​​Train to Fight Climate Change::The USA Will Invest in High-Speed ​​Train to Fight Climate Change - US President Joe Biden announced in a speech on December 9, 2023 that they are carrying out the first high-speed train projects in US history. These projects are across America

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      The 2000 election was such a massive turning point for the US. So many branching consequences, but imagine if we had had an environmentalist in the White House instead of Mr. Buy and Drill Our Way Out of This? At the time of 9/11 I believe it was Tom Daschle of SD on record calling for a Green Manhattan Project which obviously fell on deaf ears quite quickly as the bombs started raining down on Baghdad. Sure there’d still be cries for vengeance, but I also think if POTUS had been saying at the time ‘we win this war by getting ourselves off foreign energy’ it just might have been persuasive enough to embark on some major developments.

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      7 months ago

      I keep saying that about almost everything. But yeah, “Oh cool we’re where we should have been!”

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      It’s like a hundred years late. The US was built with invented trains, we should have the best train network in the world.

      In fact we did until we also invented cars and fucked the world up by favoring highways and essentially single-person metal boxes.

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        The US did not invent trains. Trains were invented in the UK with the first public railway being between Stockton and Darlington.

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          The US was the first to truly master trains on a large scale I’d argue, but you’re right they absolutely did not invent them.

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        The US invented neither trains nor cars.

        It is true the US was basically built on railroads, so I agree that it should have an awesome network, but it is just too big. Even if France ships you all a bunch of TGVs it will take days to go from NYC to LA. Something that takes hours by plane.