A Coveted Landing Strip for Google's Founders

An anonymous reader writes "The NYT reports, "In the annals of perks enjoyed by America's corporate executives, the founders of Google may have set a new standard: an uncrowded, federally managed runway for their private jet that is only a few minutes' drive from their offices. For $1.3 million a year, Larry Page and Sergey Brin get to park their customized wide-body Boeing 767-200, as well as two other jets used by top Google executives, on Moffett Field, an airport run by NASA that is generally closed to private aircraft."

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Re:not evil? how about global warming?

[evilviper]

Fools like you give environmentalists a bad name.

Even a singleeconomy ticket on a transatlantic flight uses about a ton of CO2, which is far far more than you should be using all year for all your needs.

Right... People shouldn't be allowed to travel. No.

Your alternative option is what? Row a canoe across? If not for airplanes, expect people to travel on big, heavy, inefficient cruise ships that are sure to pollute even more.

Once the effects of high altitute emmission of the CO2 is taken into effect, the airline industry contributes 13% of our emmissions here in the U.K.

And how much of that is greenhouse effect is canceled out by the cooling effect of contrails?

Private jet flyers and short haul flights should just be stopped completely, there is absolutely no reason for them, and it will kill people, plain and simple.

That's bull. Sea levels have risen before, and significant numbers of people didn't die from it. There's no reason to believe slightly faster rise will be any different.