[bubbacluck]

"Gordon Brown needs to get a grip on this industry before its wastefulness ruins our chances of tackling climate change."

That, to me, is the bottom line.

[buccaneer81]

What scares me is the response from the opposition Conservative Party. No wonder they keep losing elections:

And Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Peter Ainsworth said last night: "This is a stark example of the perverse way in which the aviation industry works. "It is utterly ludicrous that at a time of growing public concern about aviation's contribution to climate change, British Airways is operating ghost flights in order to keep its take-off and landing slots at airports."

[gridlock]

But Greenpeace climate campaigner Anna Jones said... "Gordon Brown needs to get a grip on this industry before its wastefulness ruins our chances of tackling climate change."

Big shock there. A Green Weenie insisting that government control yet another industry. Were these young pups even around to see the waste and environmental abuse that went along with government control of industry in the former Soviet Union? Aeroflot was flying aircraft that burned ten times the fuel per passenger mile and would dump enough fuel through the engines that the ground would catch fire.

Environmentalism is about government control, not the environment. Damn watermelons.