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Re:Portland Airport Grows with Expansive Mass Timber Roof Ca... by surfingdino on Friday December 06, 2024 @05:07AM (#42338227)
I agree. Trains are often a more efficient, more comfortable, and greener way to travel. I would love to be able to take them more often on weekends here in the UK, but they are expensive to the point of costing more than air travel, which makes no sense.
Re:Portland Airport Grows with Expansive Mass Timber Roof Ca... by darkfloo on Friday December 06, 2024 @05:16AM (#42338288)
Planes are cheaper as a function of the infrastructure needed to allow their use (? Feel free to correct me). As long as we allow airplanes companies to not pay for the long term externalities that they are creating planes will stay cheaper.
Re:Portland Airport Grows with Expansive Mass Timber Roof Ca... by TulliusCicero on Saturday December 07, 2024 @12:04AM (#42347412)
In the EU, jet fuel isn't taxed at all, quite the contrast with gasoline prices.