Private jets pollute up to 14 times more than commercial planes
been reading about the climate impacts of private jets and… yea. make private jets illegal. period. nobody needs them. you want one? fuck you. get fucked. thing is, getting rid of them also means rich dicks might force the regular commercial airlines to be less shit. we might even get more trains!
"The Epstein Ballroom" at 1600 Brownshirt Ave16Private jets owners use shell corporations to avoid liabilities and risks, they use fuel subsidized by us, which they can also claim as an expense. They fly using controllers paid for by us. They land on runways paved by us, they use navigation systems funded by us.
Hello-nature4The concept in this nice little comparison also applies to healthcare and education.
RonMimnaugh3NOBODY needs a yacht. Period!
yitzi2.bsky.social2We could also just tax them enough to pay to offset those climate impacts, and let them decide if it's still worth the cost. (Oh, and remove the broken parts of the corporate system that result in so much unearned wealth concentration.)
A Martian2So what keeps the current private jet owners from leasing one from a carrier? How ya going to handle charter flights? I agree we need to put a crimp in this wasteful practice but I'm not sure there's as clean a solution as some claim.
David Hughes1Something like 98% of emissions are from regular commercial flights, though; and while it wouldn't be at all popular, if I had dictatorial powers I would basically stop people flying as far as possible. Although I would probably get overthrown by an angry mob quite quickly.
Private jets are to some extent Veblen goods so exorbitantly taxing them would raise utility for everyone. Should be taxed at 1000% and they should have to capture+sequester 5x their carbon emissions
Nathaniel Glasgow2Sugar coat this with policies to encourage private rail cars.
#1 Shoup Fan1It's time bring back private trains, your favorite discourse Stephen
Clean Observer1Making more of these people fly commercial would also force them to interact with normal humans significantly more than many of our elites do, which’d be a good thing.
