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To: LeoWindhorse

let’s see...

If you believe the Airbus sales literature, the thing uses about 2500 liters of fuel per 100 km, or about 658 gallons per 64 miles, which is about 10 gallons per mile. At $2 per gallon, that’s $20 per mile for fuel alone, not counting taxi time, carbon offset prices, taxes, etc. A thousand-mile trip would cost $20k in fuel.

Of course, we add in prices such as cost of capital, depreciation, maintenance, staffing, storage, airport fees...

Yeah, whomever bought this, or rents it from the purchaser, will have to bring a gold VISA card.


18 posted on 06/19/2007 9:44:25 PM PDT by TWohlford
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To: TWohlford

Let me guess on the buyer.

He sits around counting the profits that infidels pump out of the ground for him with their technology.


20 posted on 06/19/2007 9:57:03 PM PDT by Proud_USA_Republican (We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
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