I don’t get his scoffing at railroads. Ebert must live an insulated life and be unaware of how much of our “stuff” travels by rail.
I get stopped at the tracks often enough to know it’s quite a bit as long trains roll by carrying cargo containers stacked two high.
“Ebert must live an insulated life and be unaware of how much of our “stuff” travels by rail.”
Railroads are astonishingly efficient at moving “stuff”:
“railroads are three or more times more fuel efficient than trucks”
““That’s the equivalent of moving a ton of freight all the way from Baltimore to Boston on just a single gallon of diesel fuel”
http://capdiamont.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/the-earth-times-railroad-fuel-efficiency-sets-new-record/