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exnaderite
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« on: April 16, 2010, 05:11:18 PM »
I wonder which airlines will go bust or will need government bailouts. Not flying for days in an economy like this is sure to devastate the balance sheet.
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exnaderite
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« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2010, 10:23:41 PM »
At least stranded Europeans can look at trains as a substitute, or at least use them to fly out of unaffected airports.

A similar disaster which shuts down air traffic in NYC, DC, Chicago, Detroit, etc would be far more serious on extremely auto-dependent North American society. But unfortunately that is precisely what's needed to make politicians get serious about better rail transportation (9/11 doesn't count, this is a complete Act of God).
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« Reply #2 on: April 20, 2010, 02:01:12 PM »
Makes a certain Republican's ridiculing of taxpayer funds for volcano monitoring, look all the more ridiculous.
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« Reply #3 on: April 21, 2010, 05:37:30 PM »
It has also done way, way, way more to reduce greenhouse gas emissions than years of conferences and talk have done.
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