[jackmott42]

This is a pretty lazy take. I could also characterize a push for trains as someone trying to sell something.

Someone is going to be selling something. Does the thing reduce carbon and pollution or not, is the question.

Building trains is simple, getting/forcing people to use them is the hard part. Making them viable in a lot of american cities requires a complete refactor of how the cities are laid out. Easy to say very hard and expensive to do. Americans also turn to violence at the suggestion of a paper mask, so forcing won't be simple.

But if you build a badass EV, they will buy it, and pollution is reduced somewhat.