Comments on: $130 Oil Leads to Irrational Moves at American Airlines

By: bobby

bobby — Sat, 24 May 2008 17:18:00 +0000

Just to chip in - I am not so sure that energy consumption alone is to blame.

US would have been consuming nuclear power, for example, if it was offerred, like France does.

And, let me repeat, the problem in my opinion aren't the enviornmentalists.

Oil and ore companies - the so called "energy" companies - has simply set foot and invested heavily in an oil and ore industry and have very heavily suppressed the possible alternatives, includin subsidizing the automobile industry to focus on gasoline driven cars.

Just my 2c.

By: Chad Brand

Chad Brand — Thu, 22 May 2008 15:00:00 +0000

jaajoe – The ridiculous amount of energy that our country consumes is what has put us in this mess. We use 25% of the world’s oil in the U.S. alone. The solution is reduced oil use (25% of cars in this country are SUVs) and alternative energy. The former hasn’t happened yet and the latter is just starting to take form.

Rubens – I decided to address your point in a new post so I had a bit more room to elaborate.

By: Rubens

Rubens — Thu, 22 May 2008 14:17:00 +0000

Can you give some specific advice to the big airlines on how they can cut costs and become profitable? I don’t think you really understand their situation. To compare the big airlines with the budget ones is like comparing a Ford and GM plant with a Toyota one. Ford and GM has massive legacy costs of high salaries and benefits, and so do the big airlines. American is one of the few (or is it the only one?) of the big airlines that hasn’t filed for Chapter 11 in recent years, which would have let them reduce costs and renegotiate legacy employee agreements.

By: bobby

bobby — Wed, 21 May 2008 21:15:00 +0000

Not that they don’t have their issues, but blaming enviormentalists for the high oil prices seems to me as nearsighted as thinking that a $15 luggage check-in fee will fix the AA balance problems.

I can hardly pinpoing the single biggest reason, but I can surely think of a few that are far more important than eviormentalists and one of them is the oil companies themselves.

By: JaaJoe

JaaJoe — Wed, 21 May 2008 20:30:00 +0000

It's so called Environmentalist who have put us in this position of rising energy costs. Any solution has been shot down by propaganda. Check out this article don't drill for oil and no nuclear power. It's ridiculous what there doing to us.