Originally Posted by
BEagle
No doubt the decision will upset the envirofundamentalists and that irritating Scandewegian Thunderbug child, but it is most definitely the correct, pragmatic solution.
According to one rant on the news, it seems airliners have suddenly taken over from diesel cars as causing the worst pollution.
CO2 emissions from the Q400 are better per passenger km than a car with only one person in, and only marginally more than diesel trains, and it's usually a shorter distance, but facts seem to be somewhat lacking in some of these arguments.