68 points

One guy had too much oil propaganda

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Ever seen a gas powered gas pump? Me neither.

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One of the reasons I am an atheist. I mean what was God thinking making these morons?

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Do they really think the 30 computers in their car will survive an EMP?

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or the oil infrastructure?

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In California? They have black outs every summer. The power going out is a valid concern

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Lived in California (SoCal and Bay Area) my entire 42 years.

No, we don’t.

There was a short, planned outage in my neighborhood (San Diego suburbs) last summer - we got a few days notice (can’t recall if it was a letter or an email). Didn’t have one the summer before that. I don’t recall any power outages when I lived in the Bay Area.

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We have power outages from time to time in my part of SoCal, but the power lines cross through a fire hazard zone. Guess what’s causing it to become more hazardous? Climate change.

This is more about modernizing the grid and adapting to climate change (caused in large part by fossil fuels), and I’m happy to live in a state that invests in infrastructure while trying to solve the problems we’ve been dealt. I can’t say my native red state was doing anything remotely productive (unless the fed was handing out money of course).

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A planned blackout is still a blackout.

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If the power goes out there will be no signalling on the tracks, no barriers or traffic lights at level crossings, no lights or announcements at train stations, etc.

Even though a diesel locomotive technically could run with no external power, no regular train will be operating during a general power outage.

Same goes for an EMP, even though that would likely fry the diesel locos control systems anyways

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Are you thinking of Texas?

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Nah. I’m thinking of the state that has regular black outs, California.

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11 points

As usual, you have no clue what you’re talking about.

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11 points

Blackout as in the city lights going out or the whole state grid failing?

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Any time power is not being delivered. Doesn’t matter if it’s to the state or a small town.

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62 points

You tend to lag behind when your laws are bought by corporate interests keen on keeping it the same

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Till 2019, <1 % of total rail in US was electrified according to Wikipedia? Is this true; considering that US was a world leader in terms of rail transport upto WW II, why the abysmally low numbers? I know that privatisation of rail networks and car centred cities makes life tough for rails, but 1 % is abysmally low for a developed nation.

In contrast, China is at 75% and India is at 93% respectively and both of them also have giant railway networks.

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The WW II US rail network is loonnnnggggg gone and doesn’t really have any effect on the modern day. What remains is mostly freight rail run by a few oversized rail corporations… and they’re surely in no hurry to abandon their diesel engines.

There’s also not huge political pressure because rail is already a very efficient way to transport goods. Spreading rail would have better effects than electrifying rail.

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considering that US was a world leader in terms of rail transport upto WW II, why the abysmally low numbers?

We spent all our rail money on the interstate highways and their exorbitant maintenance costs.

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They’re probably not counting subways. It may even be just intercity rail, which mostly supports freight. You have thousands of miles of freight rail crossing the entire country, and only the Acela passenger track in the northeast is electrified

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Till

‘til*, short for “until.”

Sorry to be that asshole but it’s frustrating how often this is misused.

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You are wrong, till is perfectly fine – and so is til. See Merriam-Websters article about this, at https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/should-you-use-until-or-till-or-til

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this might be a regional thing. I’ve never once in my life seen it spelled that was. to me til had only ever been an acronym for “today I learned”

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What you mean like any sane country already did?

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India is at 95% and Switzerland at 99%. PS. Just found it in random news article so numbers might not be correct.

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Electric trains‽ that will never work, trains need to be loud and dirty.

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What the hell is this: ‽

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It’s an interrobang‽

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