A cloud with a silver lining [Icelandic volcano]

What a misery some people are. I think that cheap air travel is wonderful - it brings all sorts of freedoms and new experiences to so many. For the author of this post - the "silver lining" is that people who have taken advantage of this modern convenience have been inconvenienced and shown the error of their ways in some manner. How silly.

I find that fact that it is far cheaper to fly than it is to travel by car/ferry or train is very telling. It gives some strong clues as to the true cost in world resources of the different modes of transport. If flying is dramatically cheaper then how can it be inefficient in comparison to alternate transport systems? The idea that the train is better in some way is not supported by the market price - there is clearly a massive hidden (well obscured) energy/resource cost associated with rail travel.