Train plan derailed?

[The Evil Dr. Longshadow]

Russia and China want to set up a high speed rail line to carry oil and consumer products between the two countries.  That would bypass the shipping routes and expedite delivery.  To carry oil, the tracks would have to pass through Iran.  So, what was America's response?

Bomb Iran.

[André Toulon]

Yes, BRICS is winning and your boy is just over here lying to the morons who still believe he's not a blithering idiot. 

I don't see the point of this thread, but I'm sure you'll "elaborate" with a nonsensical, made up scenario and a dumb question.

[discolé monade]

lol

what a putz

[Insipid]

32 minutes ago, The Evil Dr. Longshadow said:

Russia and China want to set up a high speed rail line to carry oil and consumer products between the two countries.  That would bypass the shipping routes and expedite delivery.  To carry oil, the tracks would have to pass through Iran.  So, what was America's response?

Bomb Iran.

Now think just for a moment. High speed rail is expensive and cannot carry nearly as much as an oil tanker, which is slow, but cheap and massive. Oil is not a perishable good that expires like food. It does not need high speed rail.

[André Toulon]

8 minutes ago, Insipid said:

Now think just for a moment. High speed rail is expensive and cannot carry nearly as much as an oil tanker, which is slow, but cheap and massive. Oil is not a perishable good that expires like food. It does not need high speed rail.

Yeah, i6 went to look ...nothing in any of the articles I read on this mulled over rail mentioned oil. Even Meta said it was ridiculous. I was gonna ask what AM station he heard this on, but I forgot he's graduated to facebook.

[The Evil Dr. Longshadow]

12 minutes ago, Insipid said:

Now think just for a moment. High speed rail is expensive and cannot carry nearly as much as an oil tanker, which is slow, but cheap and massive. Oil is not a perishable good that expires like food. It does not need high speed rail.

It does when you want it on demand instead of waiting weeks for slow moving tanker ships that could easily be obstructed and delayed.

[Insipid]

4 minutes ago, The Evil Dr. Longshadow said:

It does when you want it on demand instead of waiting weeks for slow moving tanker ships that could easily be obstructed and delayed.

Why would you want it on demand? That sounds like poor logistics.

[André Toulon]

Sir, you have 4 showing...are you sure you want to double down.

[The Evil Dr. Longshadow]

1 minute ago, Insipid said:

Why would you want it on demand? That sounds like poor logistics.

Because they have cars and power plants to feed.

[Insipid]

Of course, an overly simplified explanation. Never mind how such a reliance would grossly inflate energy prices, something we were supposed to be against.

 

Anyway, Lola and Ms. Toddingsworth bear witness to the Murder on the Orient Express

[The Evil Dr. Longshadow]

1 minute ago, Insipid said:

Of course, an overly simplified explanation. Never mind how such a reliance would grossly inflate energy prices, something we were supposed to be against.

 

Anyway, Lola and Ms. Toddingsworth bear witness to the Murder on the Orient Express

What's your obsession with Ben Franklin?

[Insipid]

8 minutes ago, The Evil Dr. Longshadow said:

What's your obsession with Ben Franklin?

You've become an inspiration for my musings. Plenty of despicable people irl inspire authors and artists, although it is a stretch to consider me either here. Isn't the power of imagination quite grand?

Everything in life is relative. Nothing exists in a vacuum.