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• David L commented on Generation Z
  Did you factor services into these numbers. In the US the lot costs typically include the road/path/trail to the lot, water, sewer, power grid, phone/internet/entertainment, etc... All of these add to the cost of either the lot or the house....
• Keith commented on Generation Z
  Re: Thanks, SFreader. It was interesting. -kh...
• Keith commented on Generation Z
  Thanks to you too, Charlie. It sounds like most transportation costs are relatively fuel-price inelastic, with the possible exception of automobile pleasure-travel. Consequently, we're unlikely to see dirigibles replace airplanes, or solar-hybrid sailing ships replace hydrocarbon-fueled ones. Is that correct?...
• Charlie Stross commented on Generation Z
  Yep, that's roughly correct. The weird thing about air travel is that, yammering about how much fuel it burns aside, if you calculate how much fuel it takes to ship bodies between continents on a modern wide-body jet airliner per passenger-seat-mile they work out somewhat cheaper than an ultra-compact diesel-engined automobile. Sure, a Boeing 747 would burn 3 times my weight in kerosene shipping me from the UK to Australia; that's because Australia is a very long way away and if I drove there instead the car or motorbike would burn even more....
• paws4thot commented on Generation Z
  Even that's only part-right. Sure it's right for your car or mine that can manage roughly 60mpg at an economical cruise, but an LWB Transit will carry 15 people rather than 5 (including driver) and that gives us 450 miles per passenger gallon rather than 300....