Emissions

Ha, so they’re proposing to build high speed railways in Australia so as to meet emissions targets. So they reckon.

For example, the flying of 7.92 million passengers between Melbourne and Sydney in 2023-24 produced about 1.5 million tonnes of CO2 emissions.

But the estimated cost of a relatively low-emissions high-speed railway between these cities is currently about $200b. So by the time they built it that would be a trillion dollars, minimum.

You can get a hell of a lot of very expensive clean & green jet biofuel for a trillion dollars.

Geez those emissions targets are making a few cunning rats very wealthy.