Wow, my two black eyes just got opened.

[thenurserycryme]

Yes, I’ll admit it, I do have two black eyes. They are sort of yellow. Ok very very yellow. With green on the inside, right near the bridge of my nose and sort of purple lines extending from the green underneath below my eyes. It’s like I was going to put on drag makeup and somehow got turned upside down. And I’m still a bit swollen, but my face

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[thenurserycryme]

Ok, so I looked up some facts. And can cite sources. And I have the makings of a really good idea, and you have the makings of an irrational arguer. I know, per one engine a train gives off way more fuel emmissions than one truck engine. But a train can haul WAY WAY WAY more than a truck. Trains get 1.13 and 1.2 gallons to the mile, but they can haul 100 cars of 100 tons a car. And Trucks get 5.5 or 6 miles to the gallon. One truck engine can haul 25 tons. So say we are going 120 miles. A train will use 144 gallons and a truck will use 20. But then divide that 144 gallons by the 10,000 tons that train is hauling. that's .0144. Now a truck divide that 20 gallons by the 25 tons it's hauling. that's .8. Now. .8 /.0144 is 55. so a train is 55 times more effective than a truck per ton. I know that this is not an adequate real life model. Seems a bit, you know, far fetched. But say, that the train has more than one engine, as they often do. So... maybe three. But that still leaves your train at 18.3 times more effective fuel wise than a truck. So I looked up some other data. And it told me that transporting one ton of material per gallon on a train and a truck, you could transport, by rail that one ton 202 miles, and by train it would only go 59.2 miles. That's nearly four times farther. Gee... I wonder which is more effective? Which is more eco friendly? And which is cheaper for fuel per ton? Hmmmm... TRAINS.
sources.
www.riverway.com
www.ctre.iastate.edu
www.trainweb.org
www.dieselinjection.net
Have fun with that.