Something to think about!
Burning fossil fuels at ground level
produces carbon pollutants that
are heated and rise towards our
atmosphere. Carbon is heavier than
air and eventually fall back to Earth
do to gravity.
Airplanes burn fossil fuels at 6 or 7
miles above the Earth, where air is thinner
and gravity has less affect on the heated
carbon particals. They consume 5 gallons
per mile, or 5 gallons every 10 seconds,
that’s 60 gallons every minute.
Most cars get about 20mpg and at 60mph
would burn .018 gallons every minute.
That’s 3,300 times more fuel burned in a jet
than in a car every minute.
There are 10,000 airliners in the air at any
Given moment, that’s 600,000 gallons burned
every minute. Who is the big polluter, I don’t
them putting catalytic converters on planes yet.