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  1. And parking them. Hard to imagine then getting from Land's End International to the Isles of Scilly when the wind is 40MPH.
  2. Based on consumption per revenue passenger kilometre. Read the Wikipedia article.
  3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_economy_in_aircraft An Airbus 380 on a long haul flight uses 3.27 l/100 km (86.39 British MPG) I went to Australia and back in a 747-400, that does 3.76 l/100km, which is 75 MPG. That is about the same as my car does on an upcountry run, though it does around 10 MPG less locally. The route I took to Sydney was via San Francisco, and the route back was via Kuala Lumpur, a total of 23,458 miles or 37,752 km. That works out at 1,420 litre of fuel. That flight was for work, and was, nearly 25 years ago (where has my life vanished, I booked the flight just after 911 and got it for $400. I also got bumped off the flight, got my $400 back and an upgrade to 1st Class to KL and then Business Class to Heathrow). Since then, I have probably driven 625,000 miles in various cars, the worse on economy was my little Corsa Automatic, it struggled to do 40 MPG (and was a lot worse around London), but all the other have easily done 50 MPG. So about 2270 lt/year, which is 5.6 l/100km. Should have stayed in Australia.
  4. And remember that it has about 50V flowing though it, so can tingle.
  5. Upstairs. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0014pgk As for the rest, just do it. Been a long times since the GPO can lock someone up.
  6. We have huge subsidies. https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/transport-parking-and-streets/public-transport/cornwalls-transport-services/enhanced-partnership-and-bus-service-improvement-plan/ A new allocation of £10.59m Bus Grant funding for 2025/26 has been awarded to Cornwall Council. This includes: £9.72m BSIP funding - £5.48m revenue funding will be focused on maintaining the existing bus network. £4.24m capital funding will improve access and deliver upgrades to: bus stations bus stops and real-time passenger information screens £0.87m funding to include: Bus Services Operators Grant (BSOG) to support tendered bus services. As well as an allocation to support BSIP delivery. About £17 quid each. They may be spending the money on the wrong things.
  7. Spend more on your kitchen then.
  8. How many were on the bus. A bus does about 6MPG, my car over 20 times that. So has to be 10 people on bus at all times.
  9. The best teachers are the ones that are remembered. Both of those are happening, just not at the right pace.
  10. So no solution then. Personally I think education is the answer.
  11. As in a milage allowance, or an emissions allowance?
  12. What is your solution to reduce emissions and curb climate change then?
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