TV commercial for a new 50 MPG car?
So, I am watching the History Channel and a TV commercial comes on with a car driving down a country road. The voice over says "what can a car that gets 50 miles per gallon do for the environment?" It's not a Honda or a Toyota, so my interest is piqued. What can it do? "Not as much as the car that carries it" explains the voiceover as the car drives into the back of a train, somehow in the middle of a road. The voice over then says CSX trains can carry a ton of freight 426 miles on one gallon of fuel. Thanks for getting my hopes up, CSX. You can watch the dissapointing ad at CSX's website.
[Source: CSX]
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Matt Moran 10:18AM (10/28/2007)
I don't know much about trains, so forgive the naiveté of this question, but I assume trains don't actually go 426 miles on one gallon of fuel. Don't they really mean that their train, which is carrying 1000 tons of freight, goes 0.426 miles on a gallon of fuel?
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Tim 10:29AM (10/28/2007)
The point here is that economies of scale make mass transit FAR more efficient than automobiles or trucks. Rail is the most efficient form of mass transit we have. DUH!
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small-wee-wee 2:42PM (10/28/2007)
Yea, I needed an ad to remind me that commuter rail is efficient!
Oh ya, CSX perhaps you would like to fix these violations?
Probe Uncovers 3,500 Safety Violations on CSX Railroad Properties
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JOHN P. 11:46PM (10/28/2007)
this leaves me with the question if train can do that much caring that much weight why can't cars or trucks do it? i don't know something is not right..
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small-wee-wee 11:27AM (10/29/2007)
John P. - It is called right. If you could go at a constant optimal speed endlessly you too would get amazing MPG.
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