Comments by "VE7NDE" (@denelson83) on "Why Train Tickets Cost So Much In America" video.

  1.  @cantaguyjustsay  If Amtrak were a private company, it would go out of business, and inter-city passenger rail travel would end up being a thing of the past in the US.
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  2.  @kevint9566  And the auto manufacturers. And the airlines.
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  3.  @markhemsworth2670  Everything has its price. Subsidized gasoline contributes to more greenhouse gas emissions.
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  4. And I live on Vancouver Island and we do not have passenger train service at all anymore. EVERYONE on this island who wants to travel has to drive.
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  5.  @TohaBgood2  Unfortunately, it's been said that the E&N Railway is in too poor a condition to run passenger services on anymore, and it is too expensive to repair.
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  6.  @samsonsoturian6013  More fossil fuels, huh?
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  7.  @Neville60001  Nuclear power has unfortunately become too heavily stigmatized.
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  8.  @bcubed72  But the profit motive is leading humanity down the path towards species-wide suicide from climate change. How in the hell is that supposed to be "GOOD"? Take your neoliberal propaganda elsewhere.
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  9.  @Argonhubert  A measure-zero exception.
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  10.  @ncard00  Found the selfish corporate stooge.
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  11.  @therealchoiboy  Making the US a capitalist dictatorship.
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  12.  @pauld.b7129  Nobody would use it because everyone already has a car.
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  13.  @samsonsoturian6013  But they are inefficient and generate a ton of greenhouse gases. We really should be moving away from cars and planes.
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  14.  @AlaskaErik  So you would rather perpetuate the increase in greenhouse gas emissions and keep humanity on a path to collective suicide? Everything has its price.
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  15.  @pandabearoceanpark  It's because you instead have a capitalist dictatorship.
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  16.  @Neville60001  No, urban North Americans.
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  17.  @Neville60001  Unfortunately, maglev technology has turned out to be snake oil.
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  18.  @samsonsoturian6013  The use, not the distribution.
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  19.  @Neville60001  So then how come there are still only those two maglev tracks?
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  20.  @MichkovsBurner  Found the corporate stooge.
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  21.  @Racko.  Found the Big Oil stooge.
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  22. Because of cars. And then there's Via Rail here in Canada.
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