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What about the oil, coal, and natural gas used to manufacture and maintain all of this. No one has calculated this and it is enormous in energy used and emissions.
And what about the oil, coal and natural gas used to manufacture and maintain fossil-fuel burning buses... and cars.
A vehicle which can carry 50 people and usually carries 10 is almost always going to use less resources per passenger-kilometre than one which can carry 5 people and usually carries 1. Economies of scale and all that.