@crackbuddha has interesting ideas.

...300 miles is once-a-year far? That’s amusing.

Beat me to the correction.

Florida East Coast, a local Class II.

Has he seen The Pentagon Wars? It’s a fantastic film.

Unless you’re a tourist, I think most would argue that Amtrak is far better than Via.

Exactly. My end goal is getting from point A to point B. More people than ever before can do that now, and some of the folks around here evidently don’t want that to happen.

Except that all the data we have shows a strong downwards trend on fares, both domestic and international.

The Canadian market is an interesting case. Very little competition, in terms of both airlines and alternatives to air travel. It’s ripe for someone to come in and do what WestJet did 15 years ago.

What do you mean by “if they actually had to compete with each other”? That’s absurd. We have what we have today because they have to compete with each other: the industry has changed dramatically since deregulation in 1978 and the advent of Open Skies in 1992.

You can fly to more places for less - that’s the end goal. Hundreds of millions of people now have access to air travel that didn’t thirty years ago, and that’s a huge economic boon.

Thank you. Beat me to it.

Hurts to see it in such bad shape. It’s a great car.

Alternatively: “I’m dumb enough to give Elon Musk a $1,000 interest-free loan”.

Agreed. People are comparing a company that delivered 100k vehicles in 2017 with one that delivered nearly ten million. It’s ridiculous.

My stupefaction sides with GM, not Tesla.  

The fact that we talk about GM and Tesla in the same sentence is nothing short of mind-boggling.

We already have CNG - it’s no surprise that people aren’t flocking to a technology that’s more expensive and less effective than what we’ve got now.

What, exactly, made Vietnam illegal?

This, x10. Luckily, just about every decent theater in LA is now reserved seating. It’s been years since I’ve gone to a show without reserved seats.