An inconvienet truth...

Reading an article on the NYT, 'To Save Fuel, Airlines Find No Speck to Small' I realized shit doesn't happen unless it hits your wallet. Airplanes have been notorious C02 emission machines, no big deal, we all knew it. But now, with a keg of oil costing so much, airlines need to get creative in making their planes more efficent, from replacing all the seats with one's that are 5 lbs lighter, to tray carts that are 17lbs less, to hosing down the blades as in the photo above.
How much do these little changes add up to? Well $1/2 million per year for every 25 lbs shed from a plane! How many gallons is that, well about 100,000 gallons of fuel saved per year by shedding 25lbs!
So why didn't we swap out our plane seats in 2007 for the 5lb lighter ones, and save what, 1 million gallons of petro a year per plane?

