Good! Use trains.
this post was submitted on 16 Apr 2026
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Please let me know when the bullet train across the Atlantic and Pacific gets finished.
If oil shortage is severe enough and long lasting, we might see passenger ships coming back for transatlantic travel.
My family lives a 15 hour flight away, I guess fuck me for not being born in Europe, I should just go back home permanently.
Sign me up, but only if it involves duck trains. It's like a bunch of limo duck boats with couplings. Perhaps hydrofoils—high efficiency, relatively low load—could be a good fit. I would ride on a solar duckfoil.
Do you really need to be there or would a call be enough?
Will online meetings and trains become relevant again?
One can only hope so!
IMHO: this only accelerated the inevitable. If you look at the airline industry, you will ask yourself how the hell can a flight cost 30 to 60 € in one direction? Well answer is in my opinion it can't. No one can convince me that the pilot, the crew, the ground services, the fuel, the maintenance and the overflight services are cheap enough for this to make sense in a 200 people aeroplane. So I think this industry has been in a race to the bottom for quite some time now and basically they just wait to see who's left to hold the bag after that.
Imagine all flights being grounded due to lack of fuel and trains suddenly becoming important. Germany is going to be so fucked...
The upside will be that people will spend money in the local economy instead of flying abroad and spending money there.
Flights within Germany where never popular. People would rather use the car, because it's mostly cheaper and must of the time faster and more reliable than the train.
Oil reaches Europe and there are refineries, which can produce more jet fuel...
Maybe then we can finally start to fly less…
6 weeks from now I want to start my vacation 💀
Vacations doesn't require jet fuel.
Relatively few people in the world visit the other side of the world by plane. For our sake it should remain a rare occurrence. For most vacations, there's plenty of places that one can reach by train and bus.
If your area has shitty train infrastructure or too few bus lanes, I'm sorry, you may want to have a close look at where your taxes are going.
For someone who doesn't know shit about my vacation, you seems to have quite many words to spare ;+)
Right, I know nothing except it seems to involve jet fuel. This is a general comment on vacations by plane, don't take it personally.