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CronoDAS comments on How to save (a lot of) money on flying - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: CronoDAS 04 February 2015 11:29:57PM *  3 points [-]

In the old days, railroads would charge more for shipping a short distance over a given track than shipping a long distance over that track... They'd have local monopoly power but not national monopoly power. Federal regulations banned this.