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An idling gas engine may be annoyingly loud, but that’s the price you pay for having WAY less torque available at a standstill.

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Maybe don’t do that? Catch a train it’s significantly cheaper anyway.

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No passenger rail. It’s car or a once a week bus that doesn’t even stop in the town my family lives in.

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That’s an infrastructure problem you can help solve and regardless going on long trips for most people is 100% optional.

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That would become a 15+ hour trip then…

Edit: On further investigation, it’s also not significantly cheaper than flying, and is much more expensive than fuel for driving.

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But much better for the environment, sometimes others matter more and when more people use rail it’s more likely our country will catch up and build hyper train networks.

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