Category: travel

You wonder how most of the highly paid CEO’s, managers, and financial officers of the airline industry could have been so unprepared for high fuel prices. The warning signs have been loud and clear for the past few years. Now that crude oil is approaching $150 a barrel the airline industry with few exceptions is operating in a panic mode.

I saw a CNN special presentation last night that had as its title, “We Were Warned - America Out of Gas. The same holds true for the airline industry. They were warned but except for Southwest Airlines and perhaps one or two others, like Jetblue, the highly paid executives were too busy enjoying their perks to listen up. Now, they are in fact paying through the nose for jet fuel with no end in sight.

In the CNN special there was a very interesting segment featuring Sir Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin Airlines. Sir Richard was quite straightforward in his assessment of the energy situation. He stated that the shocks to the world financial system will be greater than the combined effects of World Wars One and Two combined. To try to save the day he thinks, quite correctly in my opinion, that it will take a huge emergency effort on the part of world governments, by industry and the public. He is not at all sure that we will have enough time to move to alternative energy sources before time runs out and we are at nearly empty.

Traveling is meant to be relaxing. As a result, most of us will go on vacations overseas. Of course you would also like to plan for a budget travel so that the trip will not damage your wallet. Here are some advices for you when you are planning for your budget travel. You will certainly find them useful to you.

First of all, you have to prepare a travel budget for your trip. Of course you have to make your budget realistic. You should try to have an idea of the cost of your trip. For example, you may visit a few travel agencies to see how much the air tickets will cost you. You will also need to know the cost of other items such as accommodations.

At this point, I bet most people will agree that setting the budget is not that difficult. What is really difficult is to stick to the budget. Yes it will be pointless to create the budget if you are not going to stick to it.

When you are planning for a budget trip, you will certainly want to find some discount offers for your trip. The first thing you will do in order to get some discount offers is to search for these offers on the web. There are tons of websites which will offer discount air tickets.

Another thing that might cost your quite a large amount of money is your accommodations. You will also be able to search for discounts on the web.

Try to imagine gas costing $10 for every gallon. One day gas could reach that price so we should look at running our cars on water instead.

We are using up the world reserves of oil fast and demand continues to grow. With all this demand the price of oil can only continue to rise. When we start to run out of the oil we depend on we may think that $10 per gallon would be cheap.

We should be looking for alternative fuel and energy supplies now. The whole world should treat this like a battle where we all pull together and do whatever we have to do to achieve success. We must all start trying to use less oil and gas in any way we can.

We were taught at school that water is made up of hydrogen and oxygen both of which burn. Hydrogen is a very good fuel so we could be trying to get the hydrogen out of water and use that as gas but it used to be thought too expensive.

Now hobbyists and engineers have developed easy to build systems that can make hydrogen gas from water. The gas can then be used as part of the fuel used to run your car engine.

You can easily find the parts locally and assemble them in your garage. They say you can fit the kit to your car in a couple of hours and be ready to run your car on water.