THEY SAY THAT LIKE IT'S A BAD THING:

Saying Goodbye to Cheap Airfare (Gregory Lamb, February 14, 2007, Christian Science Monitor)

Just a few decades from now, people may look back at the early 21st century with both fondness and horror as the Era of the Cheap Airline Flight. They may wax nostalgic for the days when visiting distant relatives and taking vacations in exotic locales were easily affordable for the masses. But they also may be alarmed at how long it took the world to realize the havoc that unfettered air travel was wreaking on the world's climate.

At least one travel industry official predicts that in 30 years, long-distance flying will be undertaken only by the wealthy as ticket prices rise dramatically -- and the number of flights shrinks proportionately -- to curb the emissions of greenhouse gases created by air travel.

We can use gas taxes to cut that thirty years.

Posted by Orrin Judd at February 14, 2007 12:00 AM