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So given the choice of a comfortable, safe, environmentally responsible mode of transportation, you chose to go for the option where you get to burn lots of fos
by naturalgradient 8y ago
So given the choice of a comfortable, safe, environmentally responsible mode of transportation, you chose to go for the option where you get to burn lots of fossil fuel and move at a speed in a metal box at which you cannot control it any more if anything happens and which you had no experience in, putting your own and other lives at risk.
As a German, I wish we would impose strict speed limits on the Autobahn to avoid tourists, or anyone for that matter, do such wasteful dangerous joyrides.
Note: have been in a car accident so appreciate I am very very biased against how offhand and casually people go about such behaviour, how lives are destroyed for no reason.
- Scoundreller 8y agoI’m a believer in the cost of something being a representation of the resources used up in providing that product/service. Even if the train itself produces less CO2 than a car, somewhere along the line those extra EURs are being used to buy things that produced CO2. And Germany’s gas taxes keep that in mind. Or maybe the car company just needed to relocate cars out of Munich (no surprise during Oktoberfest) and there weren’t many train tickets left.
- majewsky 8y ago> Even if the train itself produces less CO2 than a car Deutsche Bahn advertises their long-distance trains as running on 100% renewable energy.
- Scoundreller 8y agoWhich is just that, marketing. Almost half of German electricity is from coal. It’s all the same grid. If DB earmarks some renewable electricity for itself, then the non-renewable mix is increased for another customer.
- germanier 8y agoDeutsche Bahn operates their own grid and gets about two thirds of their energy from power plants directly connected to that on long-term contracts (the rest is fed in from the public grid with some inverters).