Some readers have weighed in on how the President saved fuel on date night by taking three planes to NYC rather than one. Craig writes:

Now that the President is running GM, UAW labor rules take priority:
Not three planes in order to save fuel — three planes in order to put three separate crews to work!

So add these jobs to the list of those saved by the spendulus bill?

And Paul writes:

Better yet, why didn’t he take the AMTRAK train to New York? It’s a model of government efficiency right? Hell, the railroad industry was the first industry we nationalized. Now that we’ve nationalized the auto industry and are soon to nationalize CITIGROUP, shouldn’t Obama be touting the benefits of nationalization by taking such an efficient government-run railroad to Broadway? He could have carried his entire staff and the press corps on several cars.
And maybe do a whistle stop speech along the way . . .

Or, at the very least, the press corps and staffers could have taken the train.