What could possibly go wrong?
Extra fuel is joining peanuts and magazines on the list of things American Airlines wants to ditch at the gate. The airline announced plans this week to save cash by using “scientifically precise” computer models to load less fuel. If pilots want more, they’ll need to submit a request in writing.
Usually I wouldn’t dignify the likes of The Australian with my readership, but someone on Twitter linked to this article by John Black about how us Greenies are destroying his party and figured it was work a look-see. I thought I was only destroying the Internets by clogging all them tubes with my words and whatnot.
With the (continuing) disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, in true technocratic style Dmitry Medvedev has proposed a pragmatic, logical idea: an international environment fund. So it probably won’t ever happen.
Jaw, meet floor. To be fair to Fox News, at least they had one dissenting panelist who scoffed at the idea that oil was just in a "few isolated patches", and that nature could take care of it. Frankly, the moment Brit asked "Where’s the oil?" I would have informed him it’s in his skull, where his brain should be.
I post this because Singapore is dealing with its own oil spill now too. Obviously its an order of magnitude smaller than what BP managed to do in the US, but given Singapore is barely the size of a country town in land area the effects are being felt all over the place. The smell, mostly :P.
My good Twitter friend Mary Wallace recently wrote a poignant post on the American oil spill. So much for their new corporate logo indeed.
Newt and Calista Gingrich, please report to the south coast of the US for cleanup duty.
The problem isn’t that you’re paying too much for petrol Newt, its that you’d rather spend time and effort drilling in the middle of the friggen ocean instead of developing alternatives, all under a thin veil of patriotism. Any temporary reduction in prices would only provide temporary relief, and would do nothing to solve either the energy crisis of which you speak, or energy independence.
I’m assuming he wasn’t being sarcastic, if you were sir then please disregard.
Morocco is about to power half of its energy grid with solar power thanks to its abundant year long sunshine according to this really interesting post from CleanTechnica. Why isn’t Australia doing this?!
I fancy myself a bit of a greenie (I’ve even voted for them), but I’m not that impressed by biofuels, at least not so far.
It’s one of those age old questions (adjusted for inflation), what would you do if you suddenly had 100 million dollars?
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