Tag Archives: transportation

Planes, planes, planes

I’m glad that some travel companies are finally stating that carbon offsets–those extra few bucks that are supposedly used to plant trees in order to “offset” fuel use and other carbon producing activities–don’t work.  This is especially true with flying; see the story here.  It’s about time someone said something about this. 

The question in my mind–a question that the article raises towards the end–is why don’t we have good, fast trains here?  When I was in Japan, there was the Shinkansen bullet train that moved so fast you would feel it in your ears.  It moves up to 186 miles per hour.  One could go from Aomori to Tokyo in just a few hours.