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...jetways without waiting for departing planes to clear the path. Architects installed cleaning-supply closets at the gates to assist flight crews in maintaining a fast 30-minute plane turnaround time, and JetBlue hopes that each gate will turn over 10 flights daily, compared with an average three flights per gate per day for other airlines - that rate, Jet Blue says, should help keep ticket prices relatively...
...really out of touch? The Bush Administration estimates that expanded offshore drilling could increase oil production by 200,000 bbl. per day by 2030. We use about 20 million bbl. per day, so that would meet about 1% of our demand two decades from now. Meanwhile, efficiency experts say that keeping tires inflated can improve gas mileage 3%, and regular maintenance can add another 4%. Many drivers already follow their advice, but if everyone did, we could immediately reduce demand several percentage points. In other words: Obama is right...
...Obama's path certainly has risks. As conservatives always - rightly - warn, government isn't nearly as efficient as the market in figuring out the most effective new technologies. Spending money on infrastructure may prove inflationary given the current size of the deficit - although $21 billion per year doesn't seem all that much after an Administration that spent $10 billion per month in Iraq. "You can argue that there's a need for short-term deficit spending," says one of Obama's economic advisers, "but in the end, he's going to have to get back to fiscal responsibility." Ultimately...
...budget. His claim to pay for the things he proposes rests on loaves-and-fishes premises, especially the prospect of a Congress mesmerized into acquiescence on controversial issues like raising taxes to Clinton-era levels and closing corporate loopholes. But Obama's economic proposals - especially the $21 billion per year he wants to spend on alternative energy and infrastructure projects - represent an acknowledgment that the economic conversation has to change, that the old order faileth...
...been logging a lot of phone time with Gore. But Obama has changed the emphasis a bit to promote "green collar" job development, like programs to retrofit public buildings to conserve energy. Obama also has a new take on traditional infrastructure spending, designed to limit cronyism: a $6 billion-per-year federal infrastructure bank, where loans to states and localities would have to be approved by a bipartisan board of governors appointed by the President and confirmed by Congress...