https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_efficiency_in_transport

that table is thoroughly fascinating. i mean all of them, there’s more than one table on that article

apparently walking is the most energy-efficient transport mode of all?!?!? apart from bicycles

what i find mind-blowing is that airplanes consume approximately the same amount of energy as cars and trains. I mean i can easily see cars and trains being on the same level, but i always thought that airplanes consumed like an order of magnitude more fuel than cars. considering how everybody keeps saying that “airplanes consume so much fuel” and such. crazy.

and also boats are less efficient than i thought? boats consume 16 L/100 km while cars, trains and airplanes consume 6 L/100 km?

  • SlurpingPus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    52·
    3 days ago

    Oh suuuure. Except maybe you haven’t noticed, but I can read English, and peruse US-dominated social media. In the threads on mass transit it’s always “truly these are complex and multifaceted problems”, and then outside that thread it’s “I had to use subway today with all the masturbating weirdos like a peasant”.

    • acockworkorange@mander.xyzEnglish
      14·
      3 days ago

      They are just not related. The crazies on the street are not disappearing if people all decide to use transit. How is that a chicken and egg problem?

      • SlurpingPus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        72·
        3 days ago

        Explain then how it is that there are no dirty smelly masturbating crazies on buses and subways in my country.

        Crazies hang out doing crazy stuff in spaces that are conducive to such behavior. If normal people ride public transport because it’s expected that public transport accommodates normal people, then crazy behavior isn’t tolerated on public transport.

          • SlurpingPus@lemmy.worldEnglish
            12·
            3 days ago

            I’m pretty sure that compared to the US, the only relevant social program we have is cops chasing homeless people out of sight, as opposed to letting them hang out wherever.

            Aside from universal healthcare, of course.