Toll booths a global warming threat?
I was thinking the other day (dangerous, I know...)
Think about how much toll booths contribute to so-called man-made "global warming".
Requiring vehicles to make unnecessary stops when they would have merely continued at present speed causes the wasteful use of expensive fuel and increases emmissions.
The question is, would our strongest political screamers of global warming be willing to give up the toll booths?
On the same note, nose abatement procedures that we follow, in some cases, do the same thing. There are a few out in California that cause otherwise unnecessary climb/descent profiles and turning...while the plane is configured and low altitude.
Would they be willing to "do their part" and tolerate the noise in exchange for a lower carbon footprint?
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