Comments by "Traveller" (@traveller23e) on "HOW Will Trump CHANGE Aviation?!" video.

  1. For reference how does that compare to the costs of fuel, maintenance, runway usage and storage?
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  2.  @Wargasm54  That's why the government needs to be extra careful not to put all its eggs in one basket (for example, it could insist on having an unlimited license to use all relevant IP in order to maintain and replace its aircraft). Obviously one way to do this would be to have government-run military production facilities but it's a balancing act; if we're talking about where to get the navy ballpoint pens it probably doesn't need to come from in-house.
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  3.  @mrmariusi  A duopoly isn't that much better than a monopoly. Imo other tools need to be used to tackle the problem, whether by nationalising the relevant services or lowering the maximum time key patents can be valid, to in extreme cases requiring certain kinds of IP to be rendered public and free use.
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  4.  @pinkace  Just because people have done things wrong in the past doesn't mean we should continue to do so
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  5.  @pinkace  Most countries in Europe are also selling off as much of the government as they can and are busy promoting electric cars instead of much better alternatives that have been around longer. Been a pretty long time since I've seen any talk of socialism (let alone communism) in my country and I'm pretty damned tired of the gung-ho attitude towards capitalism whilst just so happening to award lucrative contracts to companies owned by close personal friends of politicians and deregulating ever more stuff to provide extra sources of profit for such demographics.
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  6.  @pinkace  The main point I was trying to make was that European politicians are perfectly capable of idiocy and corruption too. Regarding electric cars, my main beef with them is that they have basically all the downsides (and a few extra ones) of ICU cars, save for what comes out of the tailpipe. We have politicians pushing hard to promote automobiles for both personal transit and freight, yet the continent is already criscrossed with well-designed and largely electrified rail lines which have all kinds of advantages over road traffic. We have a golden opportunity/excuse to expand pedestrian zones and improve public transit to get cars off the road (in the process making our cities prettier, safer, and wealthier), yet mostly that isn't happening. They're going for costly bandaid "solutions" instead. Now don't get me wrong, if you happen to need to go somewhere where infrastructure isn't present and human powered vehicles just aren't gunna cut it (say, the middle of a desert), and electric vehicle might be worth considering. I don't know diddly about offroading so I wouldn't really know what the state of technology is in that regard, but my point is that we should have better options available where most people live, i.e. cities.
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  7.  @pinkace  Of course electrification is better, but applying it in the form of trams, electric busses, metros, and trains would be a vast improvement to saying electric cars are the future and then just leaving citizens to their own devices.
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  8.  @pinkace  Well that's exactly my point, within the confines of cities cars are largely (read: should be completely) unnecessary. Take a look at some of the cities in the netherlands for examples of how much cities can be improved by restricting or removing them. Regarding train networks...Yes we have one, but it's being continuously underfunded and depending on where you are gradually or suddenly privatised. In Germany for instance the Deutschbahn trains are so routinely late that the swiss railways will no longer wait on late connecting trains run by them (usually there's a policy of waiting a few minutes). Additionally each state has its own local lines, some of which apparently have enough money for nice modern DMUs yet still aren't electrified. In Italy where I live there are still some major lines in the south that are single unelectrified track only, and until this year intercity trains through there were hauled by ancient diesel locomotives (we haven't bought diesels in a while). Now they're being replaced with DMUs and I think some widely publicized hybrid units. They've also made a ton of noise about hydrogen and battery locomotives/multiple units, both of which are insanely overengineered concepts that have no real use-case on the peninsula. Just cough up the money to electrify already instead of hiring consultants for a bridge that is never going to be built. Local trains in particular are suffering, for example the line that ran by my parent's city has been closed the better part of a decade because the company that took it over decided it didn't really need maintenance. Local public transit is much the same way, in some places and ways it's wonderful (look at Milan with trams every few minutes, or Munich with its fantastic system) but other times not. In my city some of the busses have an unreliable schedule and frequency as low as an hour, and they get stuck in traffic. Additionally, they spent lots of money on building a metro system and buying trains for it, yet they only have one every 20 minutes and the latest one is way too early for anyone going out in the evening.
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