[EdnaMode]

How soon before the left demands that all deliveries be transported via horse drawn wagon?

[marktwain]

Cheap, plentiful energy is one of the best signs of a prosperous society.

[Dilbert San Diego]

It may be coming. But then, where will all the horses live and eat and go to the bathroom; what about that pollution?

[butlerweave]

Monday I bought a few things for our Kitten on Amazon and they still have not shipped it ,D’oh

[caseinpoint]

Liberals won’t acknowledge this but environmentalism is way up on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. The harder life is day to day, the less people care about the environment. And environmentalism is a flop as a religion. Hubby and I enjoy watching live camera feeds from mainline rail arteries where trains more than two to three miles long are replete with Prime, FedEx, UPS and USPS containers and trailers and are a lot more efficient transcontinent than trucking. It is the lifeblood of the nation and a sign of hope for the middle class.

[Ciaphas Cain]

[KarlInOhio]

Emissions from FedEx, the other major shipper, were 15.1 million metric tons in 2017. The U.S. Postal Service emitted about 4.3 million metric tons of CO2 in 2016. (Numbers from both include all mail, including e-commerce and personal packages and letters.)

At 20 pounds of CO2 per gallon of gas, that totals about 11 gallons of gas per person in the US.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The authors are ignorant of what shopping was like pre-Internet. I would often spend half of Saturday driving all over the place to many different stores trying to find the right parts I needed for a home project. Now I do the research online, find the part, order it, and it’s delivered to me in a day or two. The TOTAL miles driven today by the Amazon driver or the UPS driver is far below what I used to drive in the old days.

This is a flawed analysis.

[catnipman]

yes, if only we could go back to delivering everything by Conestoga Wagon, the planet would quit melting ...

[VeniVidiVici]

If Amazon was smart they’d offer a ‘7-day save the climate’ delivery option.

Let’s see how many of these pukes take them up on that.

[trebb]

We really need cheap matter transporters/receivers...

[VTenigma]

Comrade, all of your internet goods will be shipped via rail to the nearest central processing facility. You will proceed there on foot where within a fiscal quarter or two your goods will be sorted and distributed. You have your orders now you will comply.

The headline describes the most asinine premise I’ve seen in a long time (since the “new green deal” probably). A package is basically weight, weight requires a certain amount of fuel to move from A to B. Unless you engage in the scenario I described above there is very little net savings. I know, I know, physics is hard.