Posted on 08/20/2007 5:55:58 AM PDT by Turret Gunner A20
An environmental protester hugs a British police officer Saturday near London's Heathrow Airport. Organizers hope to attract as many as 1,500 people today to protest a proposed third runway at the airport and greenhouse gases released by air travel. LONDON — For the hundreds of climate-change activists who have camped out near Heathrow Airport for the past week, there is only one way to reduce the carbon footprint of aircraft: Stop flying so much. "Aviation is a luxury we can live without," said a protester named Merrick. Booming air travel, he said, is multiplying greenhouse gases just as the climate-change imperative starts to bite. "It has to be scaled right back," he said.
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For all you warmers out there, environmental activists (as the mainstream media likes to call them) are on their latest campaign to combat climate change – stop flying so much.
Why are they targeting aviation? They will tell you that it's because aviation is considered a "luxury." Protesters have been sitting outside London's Heathrow airport for days. A protester said, "Aviation is a luxury we can live without" and that we need to scale back right now.
What they won't tell you is that they aren't particularly fond of aviation because they see it as a tool of the rich. Only the evil, filthy, disgusting, insipid, nasty rich get to fly on those airplanes ... especially the cretins in first class. I've been in aviation for over 30 years .. trust me on this one. Many people absolutely hate aviation, especially private aviation, because they deem it to be a playground for people more successful than they. For goodness sake, don't confuse them with facts. Like the fact that the value of the average privately owned piston (that means non-jet) aircraft in this country is less than the price of a complete new bass rig. (For those of you in more urban areas, a bass rig is a bass boat, motor, electric trawling motor, tackle, a cooler full of beer and a trailer.)
An airport watch group in Britain says that there should be a direct tax to stifle aviation growth ... otherwise "it will be impossible to change the mindset of a generation that thinks little of hopping cheap flights for weekend pursuits."
Talk about changing mindsets. How do we change the mindsets of these myrmidons who have glommed on to this global warming and climate change nonsense? In just the last month NASA has changed its temperature data, and now we find that the hottest year on record was 1934, not 1998? Day after day the evidence mounts that these global warming/climate change folks are completely full of it .. and day after day the mainstream media ignores the evidence.
These anti-aviation "activists" are merely being true to their first cause, the destruction of capitalism. Airplanes are seen as a capitalist tool .. and thus to be attacked. Neal Boortz
http://boortz.com/nuze/index.html
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
We can’t use sailing vessels either to cross the oceans.
We are using up the last of the ancient winds just like we have almost used up the last of the ancient sunlight.
These people have one agenda: depopulate the earth.
Well, I agree with them. They can exit first and set the example for us all by their heroic sacrifice..
(Of course, I might change my mind about all this peak oil this and peak coal that along with peak sun after their demise.)
How can 15,000 worthless bureaucrats travel the globe to discuss ways to tax Americans in an fraudulent effort to save the planet from global warming if they stop traveling?
No, we must quit flying to save our sanity.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
why dont we just crawl into caves????
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
PLANET is the operative word here.
Do these people realize what air travel means for World commerce, and for human mobility? For one thing, a big chunk of Europe’s economy depends on the ability of tourists to fly there from all over the globe.
As much as I like Boortz, and as much as I agree with his opinion, this statement is way off base. I haven't priced small airplanes in a long time, and I quit flying in 1984 because of the expense, but I seriously doubt you could get into a small plane (other than kits or ultra-lights) for less than $100K. You should be able to get into a nice bass boat for under $40K.
If his statement was true I would own a plane and be flying it every weekend. As a pilot he should know better.
How many of them flew in to participate in that lieelt dog and pony show? /rhetorical question
You can get a complete rig for about $22K at Bass Pro Shop.
These freaks should be chained to the asses of livestock and made to catch the earth killing methane with garbage bags.
AL Gore first !
You’re correct. I got out of private aviation in ‘90 because paying $30+ an hour for a 152 just didn’t make sense on my budget. I believe most new small airplanes (4 seaters max) run well over $100K.
Not to say I am not doing my part, though. Why, this past weekend I drove a F350 SuperDuty pickup, hauling a trailer to a local dragracing event where we watched and participated with people using exorbitant amounts of gas simply for fun.
Ahhhhh.....nothing like the smell of 107octane racing fuel in the morning.
Odd that it's taken so long to come up.
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