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by Retric 6528 days ago
Annual road subsidies are around:

(~3 trillion miles / year) / (~300billion / year) = 10c/mile or around 3$ per gallon of gas.

Amtrak = $210.31 per passenger per 1,000 miles = 21c/mile but there are significant network effects so some routs are far more subsidized than others.

And with such a long history of investments in cars and roads it's hard to calculate what's the better long term value.