Enviro-wackos in a tizzy because plane flies with 5 passengers.
The latest “eco- scandal” flight took place on February 9 after American was forced to cancel one of its four daily services from Chicago to London.
While it was able to find places for nearly all the passengers on the fully-booked flight, five still had to be accommodated. Those who did fly were upgraded to the business class cabin.
But while they enjoyed lavish hospitality, the airline was accused of an “obscene waste of fuel” by Friends of the Earth.
May I take the moment to accuse Friends of the Earth of an “obscene waste of bandwidth” by complaning about nothing? Thank you.
Suppose that the flight before had (for the sake of easy math) 100 people. If you took 45 of those people off, you’d have a flight with 55 people; the second flight would have 50 people. Now the “carbon footprint” is diminished…
But the same number of planes (2) flew. The same ammount of fuel is burned. Just because you juggle the amount of people on each plane doesn’t change that part at all.
Of course I learned logic (not in publik skewl, of course). If Friends of the Earth would learn some, they’d look less stupid.
