Green Tech Girl

There’s a lot of bad news coming out of the airline industry lately. Companies going bankrupt, mergers on the way, and airlines unable to keep up with basic safety inspections. Rising fuel prices are jacking up the costs for both the airlines and consumers. As I blogged here not too long ago, small regional airlines are going the way of the do-do. I wonder if we’ll even have airplanes in the future, unless someone can come up with a cheap alternative fuel that can carry a large jet through the sky. (I suppose we could go back to dirigibles.) (more…)

I never liked taking commuter planes. These are the planes that sputter along, noisy and loud, turbulent and unstable like a flying rollercoaster. So I’m not too disappointed by this study showing that smaller planes are being left behind as fuel prices rise. I consider this the warning shot across the bow in terms of peak oil, however. Large planes may soon follow, and our days of cheap travel may be coming to an end. Bummer. I have yet to see Europe. Time to get my traveling in before it becomes something only the rich can afford.