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Minecart speed should be controllable with rail types

I think 24w33a’s Minecart Experiment is a step in the right direction (love the ability to make ramps) but making minecart speed only a function of gamerule is strange. To allow variable and controllable minecart speed within one world, powered rails should be made out of copper instead of gold. The rails would then oxidize, and the most oxidized version would accelerate minecarts to their old speed while unoxidized variants would allow the minecarts to reach higher speeds than normal. This would allow existing contraptions to maintain their mechanisms by using oxidized rails, make minecarts more viable and copper more useful, and would give players more freedom for tinkering.
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    I like this idea. My thoughts for maximum speeds by rail type:

    • (Regular) copper rail: max speed 32 blocks/second
    • Exposed copper rail: max speed 24 blocks/second
    • Weathered copper rail: max speed 16 blocks/second
    • Oxidized copper rail: max speed 8 blocks/second (default maximum speed)

    Maybe powered rails made with gold could still exist, with some kind of extra buff to speed? Maybe each copper rail can accelerate a minecart 1-2 blocks/second based on oxidation level, while gold rails can accelerate a minecart 4-8 blocks/second?

    To craft copper rails, I suggest 4 iron ingots, 2 copper ingots, 1 redstone dust, 1 stick, and as an option, 1 honeycomb to craft waxed copper rails. Having rails made with 6 copper ingots would be very cheap, so the iron helps to balance it out. 8 rails from this crafting recipe seems like a fair number to me. To wax rails that are already crafted and/or oxidized, either right clicking on a rail with honeycomb in hand could wax it, or 8 rails surrounding 1 honeycomb in a crafting table could wax all 8 rails.