But the commercial
aviation industry burns nearly 240 million gallons (945 million liters) of Jet A daily and if oil prices were to approach the $ 150 - per - barrel mark reached last year, the demand for Camelina oil might end up driving farmers to grow less wheat — a staple food crop.
Not exact matches
Driven by security and environmental concerns as well as skyrocketing oil prices — United Airlines more than doubled its fuel surcharge per ticket to $ 50 on January 12 — the
aviation industry continues to cut back on fuel
burn as it searches for cleaner, cheaper alternatives.
Among claims that the US airline
industry is moving more people more efficiently and much more quietly than in decades past, it also claims that the «US commercial
aviation industry has improved its energy efficiency, moving twelve percent more people and twenty - two percent more freight than it did in 2000, while
burning five percent less fuel and producing 10 million tons less carbon dioxide.»
As there is no feasible technological solution to emissions from
aviation — essentially, they have to
burn kerosene to stay in the air — we must consider limiting the growth of the
industry beginning with a moratorium on airport expansions.