The point being that everyone pays (the same amount) for the roads, whether you personally use them or not, but the people who use public transport pay extra to do so.

4 hours at current speeds (Eurostar/TGV at 320 km/h) would still be a vast improvement over the shit airport experience.

“We are squeezing the Iranians like they’ve never seen,” Bessent told Fox News on Wednesday, adding “probably more than 80 or 90 percent” of external flights from Iran “got shut down.”

“I’m not sure how the Iranian representatives at the UN are going to get home,” Bessent said.

I can absolutely imagine Bessent saying this and being proud of it. Boasting about the consequences of a completely pointless, unnecessary war.

In case anyone else is confused: 180 degree rule