With the high price of gasoline, more people are now riding trains then ever before. I hadn’t before seen any fuel efficiency numbers for Amtrack, but here are some from the NYT [1]:
Oil costs hurt Amtrak, too. Fuel is projected to reach 11 percent of Amtrak’s budget this year, up from 6 percent in 2004. The railroad is not radically more energy-efficient than other means of travel. Amtrak can move a passenger a mile with 17.4 percent less fuel than a passenger car can, and about 32.9 percent less than an airline can, according to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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