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Railways, energy, CO2 - Part 1 | 30 comments (30 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
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I think what may happen is that the efficiency of cars--whether they be powered by electricity or hydrogen or flywheel or whatever--will continue to increase. Given the advantage to the user of the individualized point-to-point transportation provided by the car, it will be a competitive race. Trains have advantages in high traffic corridors, but cars are pretty good in lots of other ways.

I doubt that cars will go away unless there are formal policies put in place to punish their use. Congestion charges being one example...

by asdf on Thu Jan 24th, 2008 at 12:54:05 AM EST
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Railways, energy, CO2 - Part 1 | 30 comments (30 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
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