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Heathrow third runway to get the go ahead
On Jan 15, 3:45*pm, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 03:44:34 on Thu, 15 Jan 2009, remarked: Heathrow is far from being essential and isn't overloaded anyway. It's severely overloaded, and "essential" for UK plc's international business ambitions. Is it really? Please name all the companies deserting the UK because their CEOs have to wait around a bit at Heathrow. In fact, just one will do. It seems the pro camp continually switches its argument between the importance of transit traffic (a blinkered obsession with competition with Frankfurt and Schiphol) and the collapse of UK business if the runway doesn't happen. As for the growth forecasts, a better example of a self-fulfilling prophecy is hard to imagine now, with no pricing strategy to lock-in the benefits, such as they are, of additional capacity. Then there's the small issue of the net present value of carbon emissions. If the 2003 White Paper's ambitions are realised in full, the cost will be minus £18bn, excluding additional radiative forcing [1]. Wonderful for UK Plc, coming on top of the perverse subsidies for aviation resulting from a lack of taxation on fuel and tickets. Wasn't the Climate Change Act enacted last year too? Which sectors are expected to make cuts of 80% to allow aviation's to increase? Bloody hell, our only hope is the Tories getting in and sticking to their pledges. [1] Environmental Audit Committee (2003): Budget 2003 and Aviation. |
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, at 09:20:48 on Thu, 15 Jan 2009, EE507 remarked: Heathrow is far from being essential and isn't overloaded anyway. It's severely overloaded, and "essential" for UK plc's international business ambitions. Is it really? Please name all the companies deserting the UK because their CEOs have to wait around a bit at Heathrow. Name those who will do the same if we cancel Crossrail. -- Roland Perry |
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Heathrow third runway to get the go ahead
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, EE507 wrote:
Then there's the small issue of the net present value of carbon emissions. If the 2003 White Paper's ambitions are realised in full, the cost will be minus £18bn, excluding additional radiative forcing [1]. Wonderful for UK Plc, coming on top of the perverse subsidies for aviation resulting from a lack of taxation on fuel and tickets. Wasn't the Climate Change Act enacted last year too? Which sectors are expected to make cuts of 80% to allow aviation's to increase? Bloody hell, our only hope is the Tories getting in and sticking to their pledges. So basically, we're ****ed, then? tom -- Oh, and sometimes in order to survive you have to drink the irradiated water from an old toilet. -- Jon, on Fallout |
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Heathrow third runway to get the go ahead
On Jan 16, 1:40*pm, Tom Anderson wrote:
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, EE507 wrote: Then there's the small issue of the net present value of carbon emissions. If the 2003 White Paper's ambitions are realised in full, the cost will be minus £18bn, excluding additional radiative forcing [1]. Wonderful for UK Plc, coming on top of the perverse subsidies for aviation resulting from a lack of taxation on fuel and tickets. Wasn't the Climate Change Act enacted last year too? Which sectors are expected to make cuts of 80% to allow aviation's to increase? Bloody hell, our only hope is the Tories getting in and sticking to their pledges. So basically, we're ****ed, then? tom Well, quite. |
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