Depending on the equipment used, railroad freight shipment is 50 to 550 percent more energy-efficient than trucking.
Have you heard Obummer mentioning this fact in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon blowout?
You won’t, barring a popular uprising.
Rail shipping workers are also 5550% easier to unionize than a scattered army of atomized, over-worked, beat-down truck drivers.
Draw your own conclusions…