Socialized Health Care in the USA

[kandrathe]

In the in flight magazines of some carriers they show the fuel/per seat per km. I believe on average it was around 35 ml per km/seat (for a full plane) This would mean around 28 kmter. Traveling alone would give you roughly the same CO2 exhaust fro flying as for driving an (for todays standards) efficient car. Of course depending on where you have to be and if the road is curvy and or hilly.

That may be true. The distance is about 760 miles. The problem is that there is no direct flight to this little town in the middle of Arkansas, so I need to fly to either Memphis or Dallas, then take a turbo prop to Fort Smith, and then still rent and drive a car for the last 100 miles. It seemed to me that flying produces about 3 lbs of CO2 per mile, and driving produces about 1 lb of CO2 per mile. Of course, occupancy and variables in efficiency will adjust that up or down.