November 22, 2009
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May / June 2003
Karen Olson Utne magazine 
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Before 9/11, the StarPort concept was gaining public momentum and the attention of the media. Then came the terrorist attacks, and focus shifted to the airlines? economic woes. Now the time seems ripe to look at how air travel can be improved as a whole, rather than just bailing out the airlines.

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Around the world, we?re about to see an airport building boom. China will have built 29 new airports by 2005. Twenty new airports are currently slated for Mexico?s Baja Peninsula. In the United States, 2,000 airports have expansions or additions in the works. If those airports became StarPorts, Starry calculates the fuel savings would amount to 2 billion gallons a day, enough to end our dependence on Middle East oil.

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