[BAReF00t]

Keep telling yourself that…

Here in Europe, we actually use mostly trains. Trucking is for the smaller deliveries, like some five bathtubs from Sweden to Germany.

And we use trains for humans too.

The reason your trains are so long is because they need to go so far.

While around here, we use more local products. As we are still actually separate countries, not one big lowest common denominator culture mush. ;)

[wil421]

That is not the case at all[1]. I appreciate the thought out post and tone /sarcasm.

For further reading.[2]

> The picture for freight is different. According to Panorama 2009 , 46 percent of EU-27 freight goes by highway while only 10 percent goes by rail, while in the U.S. 43 percent goes by rail and only 30 percent by road. (In both cases, nearly all of the rest is waterways and pipelines.)

So, it isn’t so much that Europe decided to move people by train rather than by automobile. It is more that Europe decided to use its railroads to move people while the United States decided to use them for freight. America moves almost six times as many ton-miles (or tonne-kilometers) of freight by rail as Europe, while both move about the same number of tonne-kilometers by road. While Europe moves about twice as many tkm of freight by waterway as the U.S., we move six times as much oil by pipeline.

[1] https://ti.org/antiplanner/?p=11847

[2] https://www.freightwaves.com/news/railroad/us-and-european-f...

[dangus]

Is there a need to boast about your own perceived superiority and is that an attractive trait?