Another day, another hypocritical energy outrage
Let the Wall St Journal (subscription) do the talking:
On the road, Sergey Brin and Larry Page have owned environmentally friendly hybrid vehicles such as the Toyota Prius. In the air, they apparently prefer something roomier.Google Inc.’s two billionaire founders, both 32 years old, will soon be cruising the skies in a Boeing 767 wide-body airliner. They bought the used plane earlier this year, Mr. Page says.
[Sergey Brin]The 767-200, typically an airline workhorse, is an unusual executive jet. It commonly carries about 180 passengers. Delta Air Lines operates over one hundred 767s. The Italian Air Force has ordered a modified 767 as an airborne tanker for refueling military jets. The 767-200 is almost 70% longer and more than three times as heavy as a conventional executive jet, such as a high-end Gulfstream.
While the 767 is known as an energy-efficient jet, that efficiency is based on 180 passengers. With, say, 10 passengers, you have to divide the fuel efficiency by 18. 9,000 gallons of gas coast-to-coast, divided by just 10 people, is 900 gallons/person for 3,000 miles, equals 3.3 passenger miles per gallon. That compares to the 80 passenger miles per gallon that Doormouse and I got on a cross-country drive last summer in a 1989 Honda. “Do No Evil” indeed.
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