re: #185 garhighway

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I doubt that HSR will ever be truly cheaper than air or car or bus if all the costs are loaded in, but on one level this isn’t purely about that: it’s a technology and jobs effort, too. (Although we’ll never get an apples-to-apples on costs, since air and road have all sorts of subsidies supporting them that we never want to factor in when we talk about rail.)

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It’ll be cheaper when we’ve sucked Saudi Arabia dry, which might be sooner than expected:

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