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| fabricator wrote: | | Draffa wrote: | | MD wrote: |
The worlds aviation industry has no alternative to oil, no electric airplanes. |
Air travel will be the first thing to go. If I had the money, I'd be making a CFD (Contract for Difference) in the negative direction on Airlines in general. Budget airlines in Europe and North America are already bleeding to death.
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Exactly, in the long term there is no competition from Airlines. When its $99 for a 8 hour train ride and $299* for a 6 hour plane trip, which would you choose ?
* Assumes 3 fold increase in fuel costs, like say from 80cents to $2.50 for petrol.
One problem is how to get off this rock, rail tunnel from Cape York to PNG and then island hop via Indonesia perhaps ? Take a steam powered ship instead ? |
6 hour plane trip to where? 8 hour train trip to where? How can the two said to be competing? A train in 8 hours might get to Yass, in 6 hours a plane can be over the Arafura Sea and nearly in Indonesia.
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