Blair will not give up long vacation flights despite global warming concerns

0 Comments | AFP, January, 2007

LONDON (AFP) — British Prime Minister Tony Blair said he would continue to fly to faraway vacation spots, even though air travel is increasingly being targeted in the fight against global warming. "I personally think these things are a bit impractical actually to expect people to do that," Blair said in an interview with Sky News television, less than a week after returning from a vacation in the US state of Florida.

"I think that what we need to do is to look at how you make air travel more energy efficient, how you develop the new fuels that will allow us to burn less energy and emit less," the prime minister said. "How -- for example -- in the new frames for the aircraft, they are far more energy efficient," he said. He doubted other politicians would make what he called...