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A Quarter of Adults to Face Anti-Pedophile Tests
J.O.
Tonight on the PBS News Hour with Jim Lehrer there was a segment on the airline industry and high oil prices. A spokesman for Frontier Airlines was on, and he stated that if oil prices remain this high, the airline industry will be very different in the future, that in fact, the airline industry as we know it cannot survive. He also stated that most people have no idea what an impact oil prices will have on the airline industry. I thought this was quite frank, and certainly true.
ReplyDeleteBlackouts seem to be affecting mainly small, poor countries now, but considering the rundown condition of the grids in developed countries like the US and Canada, we should prepare ourselves for brownouts or even blackouts in the near future.
ReplyDeleteGaelicgirl - interesting. And in confirmation of that view, here's a story on Xinhua News (China) about huge cuts in flights into LAX (Los Angeles): Fuel price hikes cut number of flights in U.S.
ReplyDeleteJust a thought. Is it possible that the Chinese push to mitigate the pollution problem pre- the Olympic Games, could have resulted in a small, but noticeable dip in world consumption?
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