Re: Global Warming: Junk science at it's [best] worst

On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 04:58:05 +0100, Eeyore wrote:
Simon S Aysdie wrote:

I have heard it claimed that a passenger jet -- if fully or near fully
booked -- is in the same neighborhood for energy/beeLine as the
average passenger car (w/ one person).

Depending on your choice of car for comparison (and I don't mean SUVs) etc, it
may actually be more like 1/2 what a car would consume for the same length
journey.


It really doesn't matter. As long as it's profitable, they'll keep doing
it. And it's profitable because some people would rather take an airplane
than a train or bus or drive themselves, even given all the "security"
crap they have to go through.

The Free Market, if unleashed in her full power, would solve the "oil
dependency" "problem" in short order - when the ground runs out of oil,
and it becomes prohibitively expensive, people will stop using it.

Cheers!
Rich

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