Originally Posted by
Dovster
I could either drive 2 hours in each direction or go to a local airport and fly 20 minutes to Tel Aviv. The latter, obviously, was much easier for me so I chose that. Clearly, the flights gave me a much smaller carbon footprint than driving would have.
Originally Posted by
Gnopps
How do you figure that?
If I had driven in both directions, the plane would still have made the flights. The addition of my weight in the plane made only a minuscule difference in how much fuel the plane consumed during the flight. My driving for two hours each way would have consumed much more fuel.