I just look at how Musk lied to the country about his hyperloop idea and Boring company to disrupt high speed rail’s new found interest a few years ago. He made a calculation and determined that it would cost XYZ to fake hyperloop investment on his part, but he and the fossil fuel industry would make significantly more on prolonged car dependence.

Edit: and on top of that, he absolutely got kick backs from the fossil fuel industry for doing it; derailing our high speed rail momentum.