United Airlines says it will lay off 950 pilots
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Peter Wee - take a long look around in the glaring light of the new recession - I think you'll find that this is more than just a rise in the cost of asparagus, and as I said, its not me saying "chicken little style" The Sky Is Falling - its Wee Willie Walsh. "Airlines are not built for $150 a barrel oil", to paraphrase. Extreme change will occur. Things are going to change more than people bargained for and I see extreme poverty ahead for many, not that that pleases me in any way at all.
Once again - good luck to all furloughed or laid-off in this third great oil shock.
Once again - good luck to all furloughed or laid-off in this third great oil shock.
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Sorry there Lindburg but you have it wrong. It isn't George and Dickie show, that is keeping the shale from being mined and converted to oil. It is the Democrats. Bush 1 proposed the mining of shale back in his administration, just prior to Clinton who took over the reins. It was Clinton who stopped any exploration, along with ANWAR's desolation (pristine my ass, I've seen the place, ugh).
It has been said that environmentalism is the last refuge of communists and given the global warming hoax (can you say carbion tax?), I tend to believe it.
This oil problem is the same thing we had it the 70's and it the same arguments and mistakes are being made. Mark my words, our vaulted government is going to do something really stupid and welcome to the gas line and rationing. The airlines, of which I have 30 plus years is going to suffer big time and there will be a lot of good people walking the streets. For what? A bunch of stupid politicians in their castles in Washington. It is a shame.
It has been said that environmentalism is the last refuge of communists and given the global warming hoax (can you say carbion tax?), I tend to believe it.
This oil problem is the same thing we had it the 70's and it the same arguments and mistakes are being made. Mark my words, our vaulted government is going to do something really stupid and welcome to the gas line and rationing. The airlines, of which I have 30 plus years is going to suffer big time and there will be a lot of good people walking the streets. For what? A bunch of stupid politicians in their castles in Washington. It is a shame.
Layinlow: Good points up there.
As for the carbon stuff, it still escapes me as to how/why Senator Al Gore won the Nobel Prize. So he sold his fuel-gulping SUV and now rides a bicycle to work? Yep-I missed that news. Need to read the wire services more carefully. Maybe "the Economist" covered this profound example.
That's right, those chumps truly believe that he invented the Internet, as Al once vaguely suggested here!
Paradoxical, but with all the weapons exported from there over the years (i.e. "Saab Bofors Dynamics"), but nothing done directly for the people in Iraq by so many countries, the others who are not there (on the ground) can still preach something about peace.
Not doing something noteworthy right now, measurable-in the physical sense, on the ground (building/repairing hospitals or schools)-is much less important than preaching abstract theories about the worlds' "underdogs" (suffering masses) and awarding prizes.
Preaching about Pres. Bush's actions (though I'm not much of a fan either) or mistakes produces much more traction (like tyres on a dry road) with the media, and is much more respectable/chic, than correcting any of them, for example (zum Beispiel/por ejemplo) building things to make their lives better.
Correct me if this paradoxical hypocricy is not the situation.
Any news from United's MEC?
As for the carbon stuff, it still escapes me as to how/why Senator Al Gore won the Nobel Prize. So he sold his fuel-gulping SUV and now rides a bicycle to work? Yep-I missed that news. Need to read the wire services more carefully. Maybe "the Economist" covered this profound example.
That's right, those chumps truly believe that he invented the Internet, as Al once vaguely suggested here!
Paradoxical, but with all the weapons exported from there over the years (i.e. "Saab Bofors Dynamics"), but nothing done directly for the people in Iraq by so many countries, the others who are not there (on the ground) can still preach something about peace.
Not doing something noteworthy right now, measurable-in the physical sense, on the ground (building/repairing hospitals or schools)-is much less important than preaching abstract theories about the worlds' "underdogs" (suffering masses) and awarding prizes.
Preaching about Pres. Bush's actions (though I'm not much of a fan either) or mistakes produces much more traction (like tyres on a dry road) with the media, and is much more respectable/chic, than correcting any of them, for example (zum Beispiel/por ejemplo) building things to make their lives better.
Correct me if this paradoxical hypocricy is not the situation.
Any news from United's MEC?
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