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[quote user="schlimm"] Nice selective reading!  I guess it's easy to ignore a clear ,current statement on the DB site.  The thread topic was about intercity express passenger trains, not locals, transit or freights and how DB makes available a calculator to show environmental impact for three modes of transport.  Yet references are made to a commuter service in Dallas - Ft. Worth and to articles dealing with the entire DB plan as of  last year.  As to diesel cars, in Germany the VW Polo TDI gets close to 70 mpg, to name one popular model.   You know, if you prefer driving or to not having first rate intercity trains on appropriate routes, that is your privilege.  But anything that even hints of possible alternatives to what we currently have here really creates an uproar of potshots.  The same is true on the current thread about the end of ATK and has been every time someone starts a thread about improving our pathetic passenger rail system.  And the criticisms are predictable. [/quote] All reading is selective. I was not comparing the TRE and Amtrak to the ICE or any other system.  I was using the TRE example to help frame a question, which probably did not come across as well as it should have.   The operating environmental footprint of the TRE, as well as Amtrak, is different than the lab or research expected outcomes.  Does the information regarding the ICE's environmental footprint have the same issue? That is the only point that I was trying to make.  According the the VW Australian website, since I am in Australia, the Polo diesel gets the equivalent of a combined 51.65 miles per gallon.
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