Stories tagged with "airplanes"

Flying vs. driving

Posted by Yankee on October 2, 2005 - 11:25am
Topic: Demand/Consumption
Tags: airplanes, automobile, fuel efficiency, greenhouse gas [list all tags]

When I was in North Carolina a couple of weeks ago, people asked me if we had driven or flown. Well, we flew. Coming from New York, the maximum driving distance for a weekend trip for me is about 4 hours. I'll go to Boston or Washington, but that's it. I think we all know that planes are less efficient than cars, but I wasn't sure how much, so I crunched the numbers for two factors: CO2 emissions, and fuel consumption.

Disclaimer: I warn from the start that these are the proverbial back of the envelope calculations.

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