Every day, in every city, thousands upon thousands of people drive to work, sat all alone in their cars, ferrying empty seats throughout our cities’ streets.
So why not do the same in the air?
We’re gonna need 150 times as many planes. How much of an impact can that have?
First, it’s going to get a little darker. Atlanta International Airport alone services 250,000 passengers every day.
With a quarter of a million planes taking off each day, Georgia might want to invest in some extra street lights now that the sun has been blotted out.
We’re gonna need bigger airports. JFK will grow to 740,000 acres (or 50 Manhattans) in size.
We’d need an extra 3,500,000 Air Traffic Controllers in the U.S. alone — that’s one heck of a wage bill.
Did someone say fuel crisis?!
The average Boeing 737 burns about 8 gallons of fuel for every mile.
Each day, Atlanta International is going to burn through 2 million gallons before a plane has even left the tarmac.
A fully painted Boeing 737 carries 81kg of paint.
16,200,000kg of paint lifting off every day from London’s Heathrow Airport — that’s roughly equivalent to $250 million in excess baggage fees every day!
Airplanes aren’t cheap. About $90 million for a stock Boeing 737.
It would cost the USA $22.5 QUADRILLION to replace all its cars with 737s.
The average passenger jet weighs 35 tons.
If we traded in all 1,000,000,000 of the world’s cars for airplanes, we’d need about 35 billion tons of material.
That’s enough to build a Deathstar!
Well, maybe it’s not that great an idea after all. But then maybe millions of virtually empty cars isn’t all that hot either.
If we can share an airplane, why can’t we share a car?
Let’s carpool, let’s Carmapool!