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Travel Gets Even More Unpleasant: Now an Airport Charges You for Power

payforpowerdfw.jpgAs if being wedged into cramped, nearly-airless flying sardine cans wasn't already unpleasant enough, now sleazy greedmeisters at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport are fleecing you for $2 to use electrical outlets while you wait for your ordeal. Let's hope this idea doesn't spread around. Couldn't it have at least been a more reasonable price?

Will air travel become so unpleasant that people just turn to teleconferencing, videoconferencing and virtual reality instead of traveling anywhere? We're starting to see a trend.

Pay-per-use electricity in Dallas/Fort-Worth airport [boingboing]

11:05 AM on Thu Feb 22 2007
By Charlie White
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