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Old 11-20-2017, 05:00 PM   #87 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by JockoT View Post
According to Elon Musk's figures, from the presentation on Friday, a platoon of his trucks will be able to transport goods even cheaper than a train.
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... of course it will. Even now trucks are cheaper than trains, at least in our part of Europe. While railway companies do have to pay for rails, semaphores and all the infrastructure completely by themselves, trucking companies do not, as roads are built and repaired from our taxes.
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