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neebsI think I know what has been driving gas prices up the last few weeks. It's all the TV news helicopters that are hovering over various parts of America.
There are always a sizable number of choppers in the air at any given time. Most are up there to broadcast live images of traffic jams for the entertainment of people sitting at home, who can say, "Man, I feel sorry for those idiots stuck in traffic." These are occasionally diverted to cover police chases.
Two weeks ago, dozens of choppers headed to the Gulf Coast so they could give us a bird's-eye view of the destruction from Hurricane Katrina. Back and forth they went. Then, as the Army Corps of Engineers started dropping huge sandbags on broken levees, we got the vertigo-inducing shots of helicopters from helicopters.
When the power went out in Los Angeles, the helicopter corps that is continuously in flight above the City of Angels was mobilized.
So that's who's using all the gas: the helicopters.
-John Kelly, washpost.com
There are always a sizable number of choppers in the air at any given time. Most are up there to broadcast live images of traffic jams for the entertainment of people sitting at home, who can say, "Man, I feel sorry for those idiots stuck in traffic." These are occasionally diverted to cover police chases.
Two weeks ago, dozens of choppers headed to the Gulf Coast so they could give us a bird's-eye view of the destruction from Hurricane Katrina. Back and forth they went. Then, as the Army Corps of Engineers started dropping huge sandbags on broken levees, we got the vertigo-inducing shots of helicopters from helicopters.
When the power went out in Los Angeles, the helicopter corps that is continuously in flight above the City of Angels was mobilized.
So that's who's using all the gas: the helicopters.
-John Kelly, washpost.com
