Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão wrote>: 1: The Mopa airport if allowed to come up will be another big white elephant at the taxpayer's cost and a destruction of scarce land resource. 2: With the world wide price of oil skyrocketing, the airlines in turn increasing fares to pass the costs on to customers, and with some airlines closing down on certain routes or reducing the number of flights on both domestic and international routes, airport traffic congestion is bound to decrease. Goa itself is a witness to many cancellations of both domestic & international flights. Cargo flights too will drop as transportation will not be cost effective. 3: It will be foolish to speculate that the prices of oil will come down and air traffic will increase, as oil is a natural commodity and resource not replenishable. 4: Garbage could be transported from all over by rail. 5: Goa should be treated like our home, In Goa, no one built a home with toilets in every room.
== jc's comments: a: It is possibly true that MOPA is a can of worms engineered by 'insider-trading-politicians' and their compadres who have invested in the surrounding land. I would oppose it on that point alone. b: I submit that the present price of oil has very little to do with it's supply. Its reported base cost is $2 per barrel. It has gone up to its present circa $130 per barrel courtesy the Wall/Dalal Street et al speculators. It is a question of Value of US dollar v Value of futures in Oil. c: One immediate way of bringing down the price of oil is the increase the interest rates for US dollar deposits. Another way is to wait for Mario's favourite 'insider-trading-politician' amigos to get out of their present employment. d: Watch that "toilet" point. Some manufacturer of words may have a renewed interest in portaloos! jc
