Virgin Flies Biofueled Jet
February 24, 2008
Virgin Atlantic's 747 takes off at London's Heathrow Airport headed for Amsterdam for the first Bio-fuel flight by an airline from Britain, Sunday Feb. 24, 2008 (AP Photo/PA, Steve Parsons)
(AP) -- Virgin Atlantic carried out the world's first flight of a commercial aircraft powered with biofuel on Sunday in an effort to show it can produce less carbon dioxide than normal jet fuels.
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also take into account the food crops not grown because bio-fuel corn and sugar crops are more profitable.This is forcing prices of animal and human food up,perhaps roomend had noticed but not realised why.
Who cares about profits when you can't breath? Who cares about profits when the whole globe is iced over?
And yes, still revoke their degrees.