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Re:Why is Everyone in Tech so sad? by chongli on Saturday August 08, 2026 @09:43PM (#49227626)
It allows you to move freight really fast at half the cost

That's leaving out fuel prices. The planes may use half the fuel, but aviation fuel has increased 7x in price since 1990. I couldn't find prices for 1969, but if you take the price of crude since then you're looking at a CPI-adjusted increase close to 100x.

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Re:Why is Everyone in Tech so sad? by robotresearcher on Saturday August 08, 2026 @09:56PM (#49227688)
Great point. Even more value to halving the fuel cost, then, but fewer products able to take advantage of it.

Of course, inflation should be canceled out before evaluating the overall benefit. If you can self the goods for 7X then the fuel savings is back to 2X.

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