Life After Petroleum: Aviation
You can search and find many blogs or pick up most magazines and read articles on the future of ground transportation and how its use of petroleum adversely affects the environment. The cost of petroleum is near the top of the list of conversation starters as consumers around the globe deal with the doubling and tripling of fuel prices. However, you don’t often read about how to improve the efficiency of the airline industry and to transition away from petroleum-based fuels.
Bradford Plumer, in his article in The New Republic, “The End of Aviation,” writes of the coming downsizing in the commercial airline industry due to rising fuel costs. He makes a case for why the current air travel industry’s business model doesn’t work with $135/barrel oil.Read how the spiraling costs of oil, as supplies are depleted, will affect the cost and availability of air travel.
- Veggie Ranger
