Travel Rationing - Could It Happen Here?

UK environment czar looking at limiting holiday trips to save CO2

The UK's so-called "environment czar" last week raised the possibility of rationing air travel, limiting UK citizens to just a few vacation trips abroad by air per year in order to reduce the impact of carbon dioxide emissions.

Adair Turner, chairman of the independent Committee on Climate Change that advises UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, made the proposal before Parliament's Environmental Audit Select Committee on Feb. 5. In remarks widely reported by UK media, Turner said, "We will have to constrain demand in an absolute sense with people not allowed to make as many journeys as they could in an unconstrained manner."
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Source: ATW (Air Transport World)

Note: I don't know what effect such restrictions would have on business travel, maybe it wouldn't apply at all. The scary thing is living in a world where the government can tell you if, when, and where you may travel.