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Topic: Airlines May Start Treating Passengers `Like Freight' |
Poordogabone
Replies: 13
Views: 1817
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Forum: Conservation & Efficiency Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 9:38 am Subject: Re: Airlines May Start Treating Passengers `Like Freight' |
Some of the comments on other forums on that topic indicate that a lot of people don't make the connection between fuel consumption and weight as astonishing as it may sound.
Some of the comments :
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Topic: Airlines May Start Treating Passengers `Like Freight' |
Poordogabone
Replies: 13
Views: 1817
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Forum: Conservation & Efficiency Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 7:55 pm Subject: Airlines May Start Treating Passengers `Like Freight' |
June 3 (Bloomberg) -- Imagine two scales at the airline ticket counter, one for your bags and one for you. The price of a ticket depends upon the weight of both.
That may not be so far-fetched.
``Yo ... |
Topic: al-Maliki backs down - Fighting ends in Sadr City |
Poordogabone
Replies: 6
Views: 834
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Forum: Geopolitics Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 8:15 pm Subject: Re: al-Maliki backs down - Fighting ends in Sadr City |
| Sorry double posted |
Topic: al-Maliki backs down - Fighting ends in Sadr City |
Poordogabone
Replies: 6
Views: 834
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Forum: Geopolitics Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 8:12 pm Subject: Re: al-Maliki backs down - Fighting ends in Sadr City |
| Sadr is the only potential "unifier" at the moment, closest thing to a viable state and has more leverage with the iraqi population at large than any one living in that fantasy land called the "green ... |
Topic: How much fuel has been consumed in Iraq &Afghan wars? |
Poordogabone
Replies: 1
Views: 605
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Forum: Peak Oil Discussion Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 5:53 pm Subject: Re: How much fuel has been consumed in Iraq &Afghan wars |
Here is an article that may have some clues, although it's for the total of US military oil consumption.
cheers.
Source: Reuters
U.S. military fuel consumption dwarfs energy demand in many countrie ... |
Topic: The rise of British sea power |
Poordogabone
Replies: 10
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Forum: Energy Technology Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 2:34 pm Subject: The rise of British sea power |
The Brits take a shot at lunar energy.
Sunday, 23 March 2008
Britain is set this week to enter a new age, generating energy directly from the seas that surge around its shores. On Saturday a str ... |
Topic: Major Advance In Biofuel Technology |
Poordogabone
Replies: 14
Views: 1078
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 7:42 pm Subject: Re: Major Advance In Biofuel Technology |
Btw there is not such thing as plant waste, this stuff is gold and gives
nutriments back to the soil therefore providing for the next generation of plants.
let's start thinking for a second of the i ... |
Topic: Another Monday, another crisis on the High Seas |
Poordogabone
Replies: 39
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 1:46 pm Subject: Re: Another Monday, another crisis on the High Seas |
First of all, this smells more like US propaganda than anything serious,
someone already mentioned how the navy on both side tests their counterparts boundaries for intel.
The iranian radio transmis ... |
Topic: Iran stops selling oil in U.S. dollars - report |
Poordogabone
Replies: 31
Views: 3261
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 7:02 pm Subject: Re: Iran stops selling oil in U.S. dollars - report |
Get ready for a staged attack to come soon. Justification is needed for an Iran attack.
The US or Israel cannot now attcak Iran. If they did the US would be isolated either by
1/ getting any oi ... |
Topic: Why aren't gas prices relative to barrel prices? |
Poordogabone
Replies: 13
Views: 1261
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 12:55 pm Subject: Re: Why aren't gas prices relative to barrel prices? |
I couldn't help but notice how gas prices usually take a downturn in the fall due to reduced demand and the use of less regulated fuels, but not this year.
http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/oog/info/gdu/grprr ... |
Topic: U.S/Israel should begin planning strike on Iran |
Poordogabone
Replies: 17
Views: 1622
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 5:46 pm Subject: Re: U.S/Israel should begin planning strike on Iran |
Poordogabone wrote:
That's going to be a very intense one indeed since iran has not broken any international laws, and the fact that it is the very same bunch that sold us iraq that are pushing f ... |
Topic: U.S/Israel should begin planning strike on Iran |
Poordogabone
Replies: 17
Views: 1622
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 1:10 pm Subject: Re: U.S/Israel should begin planning strike on Iran |
For the preemptive doctrine to be used the threat must be real and so imminent that there would be no time to get congress approval,
and better have an iron clad case to present after you committed y ... |
Topic: U.S/Israel should begin planning strike on Iran |
Poordogabone
Replies: 17
Views: 1622
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 11:33 am Subject: Re: U.S/Israel should begin planning strike on Iran |
"Israel and the United States should begin an intense dialogue on ways to deal with Iran's nuclear plans".
That's going to be a very intense one indeed since iran has not broken any international l ... |
Topic: The Peak Oil Theory |
Poordogabone
Replies: 34
Views: 2571
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 12:38 pm Subject: Re: The Peak Oil Theory |
"Of course, due to the range limitation, EV tractors won't be able to work farms larger than 150 miles."
How did you come up with that number!
I doubt a tractor could till a 1/2 square mile field ... |
Topic: The Peak Oil Theory |
Poordogabone
Replies: 34
Views: 2571
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 1:22 am Subject: Re: The Peak Oil Theory |
"minor lifestyle adjustments"
Maybe not.
[url=http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/?p=535]Horses Pushed as Transport options |
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