Canada's 100-Foot Freight Railway To Nowhere

There was a video earlier this month on Half As Interesting about this railway: [VIDEO] HAI makes interesting, short, sarcastic videos about obscure topics that HNers will probably enjoy.

I liked this short video from "Half as interesting" on Youtube on the railway itself if you're looking for a video on the subject. [0] [VIDEO]

It'll be interesting to see how it's gamed, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try - you will get things like this: [VIDEO] but they can be corrected for later. One solution would be to switch the tax to a tariff on goods that can be avoided if you prove reduced carbon travel. So if your goods are from China, you get the 100% whatever it is, but if you can show that they travelled from China on whatever is considered acceptable, it drops to 20% or 0% or similar.

> Someone figured out it was cheaper then to import unprocessed meat from Spain to Norway, turn the truck around as soon as they were customs cleared and drive the 3000 km or so back to Spain for curing. Ahh, those Norwegians and their customs evasions. [VIDEO] (do note that I'm ascribing this to Norwegians completely in jest - tone is difficult to get across in text) ... Which recently had an update. [LINK]