I agree on most parts but.. "The average car beats the average city bus in terms of energy efficiency." You're just doing it wrong. Your American mass transit s

I agree on most parts but.. "The average car beats the average city bus in terms of energy efficiency." You're just doing it wrong. Your American mass transit systems are organized badly, if you get so few customers, that they don't beat cars in efficiency. "As of 2006–2007, the total energy cost of London’s trains was 15 kWh per 100 p-km, about 5 times better than a personal car.[45] For busing in London, it was 32 kWh per 100 p-km, or about 2.5 times that of a personal car.[45] This includes lighting, depots, inefficiencies due to capacity (i.e., the train or bus may not be operating at full capacity at all times), and other inefficiencies. Efficiencies of transport in Japan in 1999 were 68 kWh per 100 p-km for a personal car, 19 kWh per 100 p-km for a bus, 6 kWh per 100 p-km for rail, 51 kWh per 100 p-km for air, and 57 kWh per 100 p-km for sea." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_transport#Environmental http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_transport#Environmental originally here: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/withouthotair/c20/page_120.shtml http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/withouthotair/c20/page_12... That templetons transit myht too states that "it is generally the green move for any individual to take existing mass transit over their car"