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["Don Bowen" <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

"In keeping with our unrestrained consumptiveness, the commonly accepted 
basis of our economy is the supposed possibility of limitless growth, 
limitless wants, limitless wealth, limitless natural resources, limitless 
energy, and limitless debt. The idea of a limitless economy implies and 
requires a doctrine of general human limitlessness: all are entitled to 
pursue without limit whatever they conceive as desirable-a license that 
classifies the most exalted Christian capitalist with the lowliest 
pornographer."

http://www.carolynbaker.net/site/content/view/575/1/

Don Bowen      KI6DIU
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html
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On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 7:14 AM, Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net> wrote:

>
> Airlines have announced service cutbacks to many small airports and
> significant fare increases to others.  There is a $50M program where the
> airlines are given subsidies to service those small airports but it is not
> enough.  If fuel prices continue their relentless climb air travel for most
> of us will be a thing of the past.


It will be dang hard for me to get to Ireland, or anywhere else in Europe
for that matter, without the benefit of an airplane. Are freighters going
through similar problems?

I have a 1981 National Geographic Magazine map of Ireland on a wall in my
office. I went to Ireland in 1983 as a flight attendant for American Trans
Air (ATA), which then was a low-cost scheduled carrier that flew off-hours.
I held that position for a year, then quit to move on. The airline folded
this past April after a 35 year run.

The closer I am to making a return trip (this time with my family), the more
it seems out of reach. I read an article recently on air travel, the writer
predicted a future of just two or three airlines that charge exorbitant
prices. In which case, as you say air travel for most will be a thing of the
past.

Lisa